full-disclosure - Re: targetted SSH bruteforce attacks

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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:38:05 -0400
From: Gary Baribault <gary@...ibault.net>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: targetted SSH bruteforce attacks

In this attack, there's no need to throttle, the attacking computers hit
it once every 15 seconds or so from many different sources. My denyhosts
is not blocking 99.999% of the attempts.

Gary Baribault
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On 06/23/2010 12:33 PM, Cody Robertson wrote:
> On 6/23/10 4:22 AM, yersinia wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Samuel Martín Moro <faust64@...il.com>wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I also don't want to change my ssh port, nor restrict incoming IPs, ... and
>>> I use keys only to log in without entering password.
>>> So you're not alone.
>>> I had my IP changed several times, my servers are only hosting personal
>>> data.
>>> But I'm still seeing bruteforce attemps in my logs.
>>>
>>> Here's something I use on my servers.
>>> In cron, every 5-10 minutes, that should do it.
>>> Of course, if you're running *BSD, pf is way more interesting to do that.
>>>
>>> Perhaps could be better to use something standard as fail2ban
>>>       
>> http://www.ducea.com/2006/07/03/using-fail2ban-to-block-brute-force-attacks/?
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> If you have iptables it has ways you can do this throttle too many
> connections within a specified period. I much prefer using something
> such as this over third party software.
>
> I'm sure you can do this in PF however I'm not familiar with it enough
> to be certain (I'd be surprised if you couldn't however).
>
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