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Re: SSH attacks - anyone else seen these?
From: "Mark R. Bowyer" <Mark.Bowyer () Sun COM>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:29:04 +0100
See the DenyHosts script for the response - this has been going on for years. There's no specific vulnerability, it's more a strength in numbers / worm like attack. The automated attack guesses right often enough to propagate and presumably build a *nix based botnet.
ta, Mark Sent from my iPhone On Oct 16, 2007, at 6:06 PM, Tim <secnews () sp1r1t de> wrote:
I've recently noticed this in my logs: Oct 15 15:30:04 mysrv sshd[9563]: Bad protocol versionidentification 'POST /unauthenticated//..%01/..%01/..%01/..%01/..% 01/..%01/..%01/..%01/..%01/..%01/..%01/..%01/..%01' from 59.106.20.158 Oct 1 17:14:51 mysrv sshd[9915]: Bad protocol versionidentification '\377\364\377\375\006\377\364\377\375\006\377\364\377 \375\006'from 84.58.87.123Oct 1 17:15:13 airrocket sshd[11982]: Bad protocol version identification ''from 84.58.87.123Did anyone else notice similar things? Does anyone know what vulnerabilitythey are attacking? Thanks, -- Tim
Current thread:
- SSH attacks - anyone else seen these? Tim (Oct 16)
- Re: SSH attacks - anyone else seen these? Gayathri Swaminathan (Oct 16)
- Re: SSH attacks - anyone else seen these? Jose Nazario (Oct 16)
- Re: SSH attacks - anyone else seen these? Mark R. Bowyer (Oct 16)
- Re: SSH attacks - anyone else seen these? James Lay (Oct 17)
- Re: SSH attacks - anyone else seen these? Tim (Oct 18)
- Re: SSH attacks - anyone else seen these? pand0ra (Oct 17)
- Re: SSH attacks - anyone else seen these? Gayathri Swaminathan (Oct 16)