Increase in SSH attacks as of announcement of rtld bug

martinko gamato at users.sf.net
Tue Dec 8 11:21:35 UTC 2009


Bill Moran wrote:
> In response to Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net>:
>> Yes, thats the latest pattern I have been seeing-- distributed, slow 
>> and coordinated.  Here is a sample from one of my honeypots.  The 
>> only way to deal with them I found is to have multiple sensors 
>> throughout my network and aggregate the data.  Otherwise, each IP 
>> only appears every few hrs in the logs.
> 
> I deal with it by immediately blocking any host that generates an
> "invalid user" error.
> 
> Of course, that won't work for everyone :(
> 

and if it's just a typo on user part ?



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