SV: Breakin attempt

[Peter N. M. Hansteen]

"Admin ValhallaProjectet" <admin at thorshammare.org> writes:

> Probably a bunch of bots. Not very intelligent used.

It's a recurring phenomenon, sometimes called the "hail mary cloud" (the
odds are overwhelmingly against such things ever succeeding, but they
keep trying anyway).

> Really messed up my logfiles. I was a bit curious if the purpose
> was just that, to mask some more clever real attacks, but haven't
> seen any signs of such.
> I changed my ssh port, just to reduce the noise, and it all ceased.

This round was over a lot quicker than the ealier ones, see eg
http://www.bsdly.net/~peter/hailmary/ and the inital blog post about the
phenomenon, http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2008/12/low-intensity-distributed-bruteforce.html

- Peter
-- 
Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
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"Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic"
delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.