Heads up: Brute force attacks on the rise recently

[Jim]

On 10/29/2009 08:17 AM, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:52 PM, jdow<jdow at earthlink.net>  wrote:
>    
>> From: "Michael Cronenworth"<mike at cchtml.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, 2009/October/28 16:03
>>
>>
>>      
>>> It seems in the past month brute force attacks are on the rise. They are
>>> targeting anyone listening on port 22 and go after root. If you do not
>>> have a hardened box, you will see thousands upon thousands of
>>> connections in your logs. Once logged in they will set your system up in
>>> their botnet.
>>>
>>> Google: dt_ssh5
>>> This little baby will get placed in /tmp and will be running. Looks to
>>> be a SSH gateway for the attackers for easy access/control.
>>>
>>> -Make sure your root password is not a dictionary word.
>>> -Add iptables rules to limit multiple connections on SSH to 4 within a
>>> minute.[1] Perhaps this needs to become a Fedora default.
>>>        
>> Once within 3 minutes is entirely practical and effective. In the last
>> two days a pair of dolts kept trying 6621 times and 2185 times after the
>> door slammed shut in their faces. Their ISPs have been notified.
>>
>>      
>>> -Update your system.
>>> -Use SELinux.
>>>
>>> Why am I sending this message? Is it SPAM? No. I've seen this hit a
>>> customer and cause an explosion in their network traffic. The backdoor
>>> was installed on Sept. 30th and was not detected until recently. Google
>>> results seem to indicate this past month with higher than normal brute
>>> force activity.
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -m recent
>>> --update --seconds 60 --hitcount 4 --name DEFAULT --rsource -j DROP
>>> -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -m recent
>>> --set --name DEFAULT --rsource
>>>        
>> I love those rules and have been spreading them around for quite some
>> time now. I am glad to see somebody else has either adopted or discovered
>> the rule trick. It is devastatingly effective. Guessing a password as
>> simple as "mE3" would take decades of attempts. (Now I want to configure
>> sshd so that it logs the attempted password along with the attempted user
>> name.)
>>
>> {^_-}
>>
>> --
>> fedora-list mailing list
>> fedora-list at redhat.com
>> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
>> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
>>
>>      
> You can install fail2ban
> #yum install fail2ban
>
> Links:
> http://www.fail2ban.org/
>
>    
Don't install fail2ban you will get twice the amount of "Gold Stars" .

I had fail2ban on a X86_64 box and I was constantly getting selinux Gold 
Stars,

I relabelled fail2ban a number of times to no avail .

I was told it was the way fail2ban was structured wrong, what that means 
, I have no Ideal. But I just uninstalled it.