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Re: Internet SSH scans


From: ilaiy <ilaiy.e () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 15:02:27 -0600

Try denyhosts. Works really well ..

http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/

./thanks
ilaiy

On 3/3/06, William Tarkington <William.Tarkington () openwave com> wrote:
This appears to be related to a Romanian organized crime ring.

They are using ssh scans + password lists for easy to guess servers.
From there they create a phishing site.

It has been on the rise for about 3 months or so from my records.

--Will


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Frerichs [mailto:tfrerich () shiboleth net]
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 8:57 PM
To: incidents () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: Internet SSH scans

I'm seeing the same sorts of scans, but it seems to be only on hosts
that
offer web services and have publicly published URLs that might be found
in a
user's cache.

Tom Frerichs - Denver




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