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Re: Weird SSH attack last night and this morning (still ongoing)


From: Mick Pollard <lists () lunix com au>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 18:25:30 +1000

On Wed, 07 May 2008 08:27:15 -0400
Gary Baribault <gary () baribault net> wrote:

I don't know what is going on last night and this morning ... I have 
three Linux servers facing the Internet, two on cable modems and another 
on a static IP/commercial connection and this last one is a gateway to a 
Web/FTP/SMTP/Pop3/NTP Linux based system.


Of the three machines, one of them only had about 10 attempts, but the 
other two had about 200 attempts .. all of them with only 1 try with the 
user Root ..

Is any one else seing this? or am I being targeted? This is still going 
on now .. and it started arround 10:00 last night GMT+4
These aren't related to the recent openssh advisory for debian based
distros ? [USN-612-2] OpenSSH vulnerability
A bot looking for debian based servers with weak ssh keys ?
Just a thought. 

- 
Regards
Mick Pollard ( lunix )
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