On Tue, 17 May 2005, Dennis Peterson wrote:

> > We've seen a huge number of increased failed ssh logins, however, I can't
> > exactly corrolate it with anything specific.  They appear to be zombies
> > scanning for known default passwords.
> 
> The kickoff date here was May 4. Nothing in the logs prior and then 24/7
> solid, so I thought I'd ask around and see what others are experiencing.
> Thanks, Eric.
> 
> dp

Here's a graph for May to date.  Not sure what happened on the 5th -- 
aparently everyone was out drinking for cinco de mayo.  My ~/t.t holds all 
the sshd entries for 2 logrotates back (zgrep++).  Do you see much of a 
trend?  The 4th is huge, but so are a few other days.

-Eric

[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# for i in \ 1 \ 2 \ 3 \ 4 \ 5 \ 6 \ 7 \ 8 \ 9 10 11 12 
  13 14 15 16 17 ; do echo -n May $i: ; egrep -c "May $i.*sshd.*Failed" 
  ~/t.t; done

May 1:169
May 2:92
May 3:428
May 4:2012
May 5:0
May 6:454
May 7:2112
May 8:2048
May 9:593
May 10:88
May 11:5766
May 12:83
May 13:661
May 14:2828
May 15:10
May 16:126
May 17:36

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