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Distributed brute force ssh attacks

Distributed brute force ssh attacks

Posted Oct 22, 2009 13:13 UTC (Thu) by Felix.Braun (subscriber, #3032)
In reply to: Distributed brute force ssh attacks by ikm
Parent article: Distributed brute force ssh attacks

On my server I still see lots of attempts coming from the same IP-address. I presume the individual drones of a botnet don't coordinate their attacks, so they wouldn't be able to achive a sufficient attack rate per minute to brute-force the passwords.


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