[Tfug] Anybody here of a new SSH vulnerability?

[Matthew T. Eskes]

Thats a mighty fine question. I'm going to look into it.

On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 12:31, Choprboy wrote:
> Anybody hear anything about a new SSH vuln? Normally I don;t pay much 
> attention to script kiddies... but for the last week I have seeing repeated, 
> daily attempts to log in from what appear to be trojaned machines acting as 
> scanning bots. The attack is very distinct, appears to only be targeting SSH, 
> and is an attempt to log in as guest/test/admin/root both with and without  a 
> password.
> 
> It appears someone is just mass-scanning for default/unconfigured machines. I 
> normally see this kind of attempt 1 or twice a week on each of my machines... 
> but for the last week+ is has been several attempts per day, all from 
> different scattered machine. Anyone hear anything in particular?
> 
> Adrian
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