Uptick in SSH attempts; anyone else ?

[Andrew Daviel <advax () TRIUMF CA>]

We monitor and block attempts to brute-force SSH logins.
Usually we block a few a day, with at most about 60.

Over the weekend we had a spike of over 500. I.e. 500 separate source addresses
trying to login to multiple accounts/machines using 1000 different IDs.

Anyone else seen this, or is it just us ?

(BTW, my previous collection of attempted ID/passwords - from a hacked
sshd - is at http://andrew.triumf.ca/ssh_pass_file2.html )

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Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada
Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376  (Pacific Time)
Network Security Manager