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Re:What SSH Hacking Attempts Look Like by kuschku on Saturday May 05, 2018 @09:35AM (#17001728)
They simply try password auth, and fail with a message that password auth is off. Constantly. All the time.
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Re:What SSH Hacking Attempts Look Like by purple-again on Saturday May 05, 2018 @10:04AM (#17001834)
Set up a non standard port. This will stop over night.
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Re:What SSH Hacking Attempts Look Like by kuschku on Saturday May 05, 2018 @11:16AM (#17002141)
It has stopped now (I simply removed port 22 from the whitelist except for connections originating with my home ISP, which is a local ISP where abuse reports actually work)
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Re:What SSH Hacking Attempts Look Like by dcbadacd on Sunday May 06, 2018 @10:06AM (#17006451)
Have you tried port knocking as a way of temporarily whitelisting the right IPs?
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