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Re: Anyone else seeing SSH scans?
From: Hossein Rafighi <Hossein.Rafighi () triumf ca>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:11:52 -0700
This latest scan has nothing to do with badly configured sshd! They are looking for nix boxes with username: guest, test and user, with passwords set to be the same as the username if any? Once they're in then they install rootkits and IRCs. In one case they had installed irc.so from:
sirzion.illusivecreations.com hosted by irc.hertza.ro in Romania We are in the process of investigating this more! Stay tuned. Hossein sk () onlaw at wrote:
Hi! I've also encountered these scans twice a day from different IPs. Remarkable is that these scans alle originate from different Asiancountries (mostly.jp && .kr).Is this something new, or just people looking for badly configuredmachines? I can't think of an sshd configured that badly, but who knows... Stefan -----Original Message-----Von: Matthew Dharm [mailto:mdharm () one-eyed-alien net] Gesendet: Dienstag, 27. Juli 2004 19:00An: incidents () securityfocus com Betreff: Anyone else seeing SSH scans? I've noticed that several *NIX machines I have running (all of which are located in the same IP block) are periodically getting scanned via ssh for the accounts 'test' and 'guest'. The source IP varies with each scan. But I'm getting about one of these a day now. Obviously, I don't have accounts with that name on my systems, but still.... Is this something new, or just people looking for badly configured machines? Matt
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Current thread:
- Anyone else seeing SSH scans? Matthew Dharm (Jul 27)
- Re: Anyone else seeing SSH scans? Charles Heselton (Jul 28)
- Re: Anyone else seeing SSH scans? Ed J. Aivazian (Jul 28)
- Re: Anyone else seeing SSH scans? Seth J. Blank (Jul 28)
- Re: Anyone else seeing SSH scans? Jon Lewis (Jul 29)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Anyone else seeing SSH scans? sk (Jul 28)
- Re: Anyone else seeing SSH scans? Hossein Rafighi (Jul 29)
- RE: Anyone else seeing SSH scans? Andrew Kopp ( Tor ZEW ) (Jul 28)
- RE: Anyone else seeing SSH scans? R Michael Williams (Jul 29)
- RE: Anyone else seeing SSH scans? Ian Hayes (Jul 29)
- RE: Anyone else seeing SSH scans? GUSAIN, SUBODH (Jul 29)