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Distributed brute force ssh attacks

Distributed brute force ssh attacks

Posted Oct 23, 2009 0:20 UTC (Fri) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
In reply to: Distributed brute force ssh attacks by mosfet
Parent article: Distributed brute force ssh attacks

This used to work, but some of the botnets have gotten to scanning ports 0-65536 slowly to see what's up. They then come back later at your high port. Thankfully its not a lot of them, but my guess is that at some point every botnet will have the logic in it.


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