On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:38 PM, fakessh <fake...@fakessh.eu> wrote: > hi dovecot network > > the principle of fail2ban is repeated for connections with the same login > fail2ban does not work if the attack changes to login every time > this type of attack is rather to find valid user accounts > > > I may be wrong, I hope I too am a victim of this kind of attacks > > > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:19:24 -0400, Jerrale Gayle > <jerralega...@sheltoncomputers.com> wrote: >> I have fail2ban working for EVERYTHING else except dovecot. I have tried > >> using my own custom regex in conjunction with the regex on the >> dovecot.org site. Neither are picked up by fail2ban and I'm trying to >> use an imminent attack agaist dovecot, going on now, to my advantage to >> see when I get the right regexp. Here are my current ones: >> >> failregex = .*dovecot: (?:pop3-login|imap-login): >> (?:Disconnected|Aborted login) \((?:auth failed, .* attempts|no auth >> attempts)\):.*rip=<HOST>,.* <<< this is my custom >> (?: pop3-login|imap-login): (?:Authentication >> failure|Aborted login \(auth failed|Aborted login \(tried to use >> disabled|Disconnected \(auth failed).*rip=(?P<host>\S*),.* <<< from >> dovecot.org >> .*warning:.\S*\[(?P<host>)\]: >> SASL.(?:PLAIN|LOGIN).authentication failed:.* >> >> Here is the current attack: >> >> Jun 10 17:18:10 mail dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 >> attempts): user=<rahul>, method=PLAIN, rip=113.12.82.71, > lip=173.50.101.12 >> >> >> Can someone help me out a little? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jerrale G >
A bit of a side thought, would it be possible to just ban an IP trying to connect with a non-existent user?