Re: brute force ssh attack

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 03:20:08PM +0200, Håkan Persson wrote:
> > Were there any interesting files in the users' home directories? (Look for
> > hidden files too, of course -- maybe a hidden directory named ... or
> > something.) Also check in /tmp and /var. And any luck with the
> > .bash_history? (For both the users and for root....)
>
> I have installed and use this stuff, http://www.rootkit.nl/, but it has
> never found any vulnerabilities (which probably does mean anything...)

Clearly the people who broke into this system found something. I'm
interested to learn _what_.