A new wave of botnet attacks
This morning, in my inbox, this is what I saw:
That is, 37 reports that a host had tried to break in to my SSH port, and failed more than one password attempt. If I weren’t running DenyHosts, the dictionary attacks would have a lot greater chance of succeeding. As it is, I’ve seen at least 50 hosts blocked today; usually I get one every few days. Sadly, I’ve not got over sixty five thousand hosts denied via DenyHosts, which is a sad commentary on how many cracked Windows machines are out there.
Patch and monitor those boxes, people!
