On 07.07.21 23:12, Jay Hennigan via mailop wrote:
>> Encourage transparent 2FA, and options like country auth restrictions,
>> blocking AUTH from cloud providers/hosting companies known for being a
>> haven for those types of attacks, (should make a blog post on best
>> practices for authentication on email servers one day) but..
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Fail2ban can be very useful here.

It's running to protect against brute force attacks, but it doesn't help
against phished passwords.

We also check against the number of different client addresses, since
they often use multiple bot hosts - spread all over the world - after
the data was phished. But this time it was just one host.

Regards
Thomas Walter

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