Re: FYI - SSH bruteforcing

Ronaldo Vasconcellos <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.intrusions
Message-ID <[email protected]>
FYI, although I guess most of you were already made aware of brutessh2.

SSH Remote Root password Brute Force Cracker Utility
http://www.k-otik.com/exploits/08202004.brutessh2.c.php

Best regards,

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Ronaldo C Vasconcellos
CAIS/RNP - Brazilian Research Network CSIRT
http://www.rnp.br/en/cais

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Andrew Daviel wrote:

> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 00:48:26 -0800 (PST)
> From: Andrew Daviel <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: "Intrusions List (GCIA Practicals)" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Intrusions] FYI - SSH bruteforcing
> 
> 
> FYI
> 
> Recently we had a brute-force attempt to guess SSH passwords from a
> machine in taiwan 203.95.227.177 (www.shark-tw.net)
> 
> The process identifies itself as SSH-2.0-libssh-0.1 and tries to guess
> passwords for the users root,admin, test and guest.
> 
> We had an earlier run-in with this kind of thing - the password guessed
> for guest is guest I think .. hey, that rhymes .. :-)
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