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Re: Uptick in SSH scanning ?


From: "Justin C. Klein Keane" <jukeane () SAS UPENN EDU>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 13:09:46 -0500

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Hello,

  we saw a massive uptick recently, but when we correlated the IP
addresses of attackers with Tor exit nodes we discovered that someone
figured out how to use Tor ;)

Justin C. Klein Keane, MA MCIT
Security Engineer
University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts & Sciences

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On 12/11/14 6:44 PM, Andrew Daviel wrote:
We seem to have seen a 10x increase in SSH scans over the last few
days. I wondered if that was a common experience.
From something like 40 unique source addresses/day to a /16
subnet to over
1000 yesterday.


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