Chinese Kiddos with Broken Dicts?

[Lisa Kachold]

This is the full lowdown on what to do:

http://www.la-samhna.de/library/brutessh.html



On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:

> This is the FIRST thing in setting up any secure server  (along with say
> not running Apache or Mysql as root, etc.)
>
> Evidently you have not attended the HackFests, where more than a few of the
> group were well, able to gain a login on a machine with various tools
> including Brute Forcing via Muppet, and dictionary attacks.
>
> http://a.mongers.org/muppets/20040808-sshscan-1
>
> http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/brute-force-ssh-hacking-attempt-on-my-server-guess-who-was-responsible/
>
> What you say?  Nothing in the logs?  Pwnership immediately cloaks all
> future access via nice wrappers for a list of binaries.  Apt-get or yum
> refresh your ls, top, netstat, who, last.
>
> What you say?  You ran a rootkit search and found nothing.  Sorry but the
> simple truth is that most craft their own rootkits via simple gcc make to
> even mimic the time/date creation and the file size.
>
> Setup a quick Snort and log to another server with no SSH to catch them in
> your spider trap?
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Andrew "Tuna" Harris <
> tuna at supertunaman.com> wrote:
>
>> Excerpts from Lisa Kachold's message of Sat May 09 20:17:24 -0700 2009:
>> > Be afraid, very afraid!
>> >
>> Oh hamburgers!
>>
>> > You must put that IP in your firewall!
>> >
>> Done.
>>
>> > There's a good chance they already go in, if you didn't put in iptables
>> > brute force controls?
>> >
>> OH SHI-
>>
>> How'd they get in? What's going on? :<
>>
>> > On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Andrew "Tuna" Harris
>> > <tuna at supertunaman.com>wrote:
>> >
>> > > Helloes.
>> > >
>> > > Yes, another thread about the Chinese.
>> > >
>> > > Okayso over the past couple days I've been seeing things like this:
>> > >
>> > > /var/log/messages:May  9 11:00:10 (none) sshd[688]: Connection from
>> > > 200.111.157.187 port 51751
>> > > /var/log/messages:May  9 11:00:10 (none) sshd[688]: Did not receive
>> > > identification string from 200.111.157.187
>> > >
>> > > And then I don't hear from that ip ever again. What's going on here?
>> Did
>> > > the script that all those kiddies are using break? Should I be more
>> > > concerned?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks!
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