On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 10:09 -0500, Bernie Cosell wrote: > We're now getting hammered with the third round of ssh probes in the last > four days [one from CA, one from Brazil and one from Virginia]. I was > wondering: is there some virus or the like floating around now that > leaves an ssh-hammering zombie in its wake? Or is it just coincidental > that we have gotten three floods? > > [the probes are just dozens of random-seeming login attempts with a bunch > of root-password-guesses interspersed] > > /Bernie\ Multiple SSH brute force tools,which has been covered on this list and others a few times over the last year. http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/75/200407271059.11940.robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/2005-02-04/2005-02-10/0 http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=ssh+brute +force&spell=1 -- With Regards.. Barrie Dempster (zeedo) - Fortiter et Strenue blog: http://zeedo.blogspot.com site: http://www.bsrf.org.uk [ gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x96025FD0 ]
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