Distributed SSH attack

[Aryeh M. Friedman]

Greg Larkin wrote:
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> Jeremy Lea wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> This is off topic to this list, but I dont want to subscribe to -chat
>> just to post there...  Someone is currently running a distributed SSH
>> attack against one of my boxes - one attempted login for root every
>> minute or so for the last 48 hours.  They wont get anywhere, since the
>> box in question has no root password, and doesn't allow root logins via
>> SSH anyway...
>>
>> But I was wondering if there were any security researchers out there
>> that might be interested in the +-800 IPs I've collected from the
>> botnet?  The resolvable hostnames mostly appear to be in Eastern Europe
>> and South America - I haven't spotted any that might be 'findable' to
>> get the botnet software.
>>
>> I could switch out the machine for a honeypot in a VM or a jail, by
>> moving the host to a new IP, and if you can think of a way of allowing
>> the next login to succeed with any password, then you could try to see
>> what they delivered...  But I don't have a lot of time to help.
>>
>> Regards,
>>   -Jeremy
>>
>>     
>
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> You could set up DenyHosts and contribute to the pool of IPs that are
> attempting SSH logins on the Net:
> http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/faq.html#4_0
>
> It also looks like there's been quite a spike of SSH login activity
> recently: http://stats.denyhosts.net/stats.html
>
> Hope that helps,
> Greg
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There seems to be some kind of cordinated attack because I have been 
seeing different backbones wink in and out (work and home are on 
completely diff backbones and are having roughly the same intermitten 
interuptions)