Anti Brute Force Protection
Apr 30, 2009I have some windows 2k3 and 2k8 win servers and now i must to protect..
I need best free/commercial solution for firewall and anti brute force protection.
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FTP Brute Force
May 19, 2008I checked my attachments folder in WHMCS dir
There was a file ftpquickbrute_08.05.2008_10_47_08.log
Opened it up it says:
Quote:
FTP Quick Brute (called c99shell v. w4ck1ng-shell (Private Build v0.3)) started at 08.05.2008 10:47:21
No success. connections!
------------------------------------------
Done!
Total time (secs.): 3.2036
Total connections: 101
Success.: 0
Unsuccess.:101
Connects per second: 31.53
Flood In FTP And Brute Force
Oct 27, 2008flood in FTP and brute force
all day i receved msgs of BFD someone trying acess server, how to stop it, exemple:
Executed ban command:
/etc/apf/apf -d 221.186.164.233 {bfd.pure-ftpd}
The following are event logs from 221.186.164.233 on service pure-ftpd (all time stamps are GMT -0500):
Oct 25 13:52:37 svr1 pure-ftpd: (?@221.186.164.233) [INFO] New connection from 221.186.164.233
Oct 25 13:52:37 svr1 pure-ftpd: (?@221.186.164.233) [INFO] New connection from 221.186.164.233
Oct 25 13:52:38 svr1 pure-ftpd: (?@221.186.164.233) [WARNING] Authentication failed for user [router] ....
Brute Force Attack On VPS
Jul 1, 2008Today I woke up to a couple of emails from people in China and India trying to break into my server. Then as I went to login to WHM I get this message:
This account is currently locked out because a brute force attempt was detected. Please wait 10 minutes and try again. Attempting to login again will only increase this delay.
If you frequently experience this problem, we recommend having your username changed to something less generic.
Are there ways that I can prevent these attacks? I know that the IPs involved are getting banned, but are there any other methods I should be taking?
Brute Force In CPanel
Nov 2, 2008Over the last few weeks I've been getting emails from WHM stating "x login failures attempts to account root (system) -- too many attempts from this ip"
These emails have been coming in almost hourly and it seems as though somebody is trying to guess the password to the root account and random other accounts.
For now I reduced the amount of failed login attempts to 2 before cPanel blocks the IP.
Is there any other way I can completely stop this person from even attempting to guess my passwords?
Brute Force Attempted Through SSH
Mar 17, 2008For a company I'm working at, two nodes have been brute force attempted through SSH. I've got the logs from both servers in front of me, but could anyone enlighten me of who the ISP is?
ISP: host-80-241-179-30.deltanet.ge
Brute Force Attack
Mar 11, 2008I have a managed VPS and I haven't really ever paid too much attention to the logs until now.
I noticed that the APF logs indicate a 2-5 attacks on my server attempting to log in via ssh. My system allows 10 minutes of log in failure attacks before apf bans the ip.
To eliminate the method of attack, I see 2 ways. One way is to change the SSH port; the second is to only allow ssh via specified ip's.
What are the pro's and con's of both... also are there other ways to eliminate these attacks via ssh?
Brute Force Detection (bfd)
Apr 6, 2007ive just installed bfd on a new server:
[url]
And im getting the following in an email every 10 minutes:
Code:
/usr/local/bfd/conf.bfd: line 26:
: command not found
/usr/local/bfd/conf.bfd: line 38:
: command not found
/usr/local/bfd/conf.bfd: line 47:
: command not found
/usr/local/bfd/conf.bfd: line 59:
: command not found
/usr/local/bfd/conf.bfd: line 60:
: command not found
/usr/local/bfd/conf.bfd: line 76:
: command not found
/usr/local/bfd/conf.bfd: line 88:
: command not found
The email is being sent from:
Cron Daemon <root@hostname.com> (replaced hostname myself)
Now i know this isnt r-fx networks support but none of there support options seem to work so i figured id post here considering the amount of users that are likely to be using bfd (or you should be)
DoD Brute Force Attack
Jan 14, 2007Ok, this is weird. What do you do when your VPS was submitted to a brute force attack from the U.S Department of Defense?
The IP Whois and Reverse DNS gives me "DoD Network Information Center", why in the world would they try to force access to a small (less than 20 clients) Canadian host?
And in case you're wondering, they don't seem to have any abuse email address.
WHM/Centos/VPS Having Brute Force Attacks
Jan 29, 2008I am getting these types of reports in my nightly reports:
=================
sshd:
Authentication Failures:
unknown (bips131.bi.ehu.es): 212 Time(s)
mail (bips131.bi.ehu.es): 4 Time(s)
news (bips131.bi.ehu.es): 4 Time(s)
root (bips131.bi.ehu.es): 4 Time(s)
unknown (swplinux02.swp.ewr.qwest.net): 1 Time(s)
Invalid Users:
Unknown Account: 213 Time(s)
Two nights ago:
--------------------- pam_unix Begin ------------------------
sshd:
Authentication Failures:
unknown (195.251.109.21): 413 Time(s)
root (195.251.109.21): 108 Time(s)
webadmin (195.251.109.21): 18 Time(s)
root (200.55.193.59): 16 Time(s)
daemon (195.251.109.21): 8 Time(s)
ftp (195.251.109.21): 5 Time(s)
root (218.19.69.193): 4 Time(s)
Invalid Users:
Unknown Account: 413 Time(s)
===============
My VPS support said I could try:
-alternate sshd port
-require key access
-selecting client ip access
-rate limit incoming sshd syn packets per src address
However, I need some help understanding the best way to address these so that these brute force attacks aren't successful.
Brute Force Warning - 11 In 2 Days
Dec 13, 2007over the last 2 days I've gotten 11 emails telling me about brute force detections on my server, the vast majority of them are for sshd from different IP's.the number of events ranges anywhere from 11 to 515.
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Brute Force UDP Attack On SSH Port. . Possible/why
Nov 24, 2007my server is being brute force attacked at port 22.. It caused my server to be blocked by my ISP's upstream...
at first I follow the instruction on this forum showthread.php?t=456571 (can't post link)
but then I realized (from the upstream email, I don't have access to any log on their side) that it was UDP.. not TCP.. but it was said to be brute force attack on SSH port.
Now all I do is moved ssh port.. and then limit the max connection per minute to port 22/UDP like on the above tutorial page..
Is that enough? I can't use IPTables to permit specific IPs, I'm pretty much very mobile so my own IP is different each time.
Any ideas why UDP attack?
Is it possible that brute force attack turned out to be UDP protocol? cause if it's not, then I think my ISP/its upstream can't be trusted..
Avoiding Port Scanning And Brute Force
Oct 28, 2009I get a lot of messages from CSF about Port Scanning and Bruteforce detection.. Is there a way to avoid all of these attacks ? Because it tries to figure out my clients ftp or pop3 user with several usernames, i.e. administrator, postgres, mysql, httpd, and many more..
I know a little about internet security.. Is it possible to make my public IP of shared hosting untraceable ? Like this one..
Just do a ping to ebay.com or paypal.com and then you will receive RTO message or Destination host unreachable, but actually the site is running well..
IIS FTP Brute Force Attack How To Prevent At Network Level
Jan 21, 2008I am getting a few hundred IIS 6.0 FTP login attempts a second on my windows 2003 x64 server.
We have a Sonicwall TZ180, a full IPS and Firewall in front of the server but I cannot determine a way to block these attacks. I simply have port 25 open to all ip addresses, as I do not know a range of valid ips.
Is there any way to prevent these attacks at the firewall/hardware level? I suspect not, because the firewall doesn’t know if a login attempt is valid or not.
I have enabled IPS on the firewall but doesn’t appear to be stopping these attacks. Is there any way to automatically ban ips that hit port 25 X number of times in a second?
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I've already set:
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Jun 30, 2008Alright so we have found someone hacking web hosting companies servers by brute attack.
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Anti-DDOS
Jun 12, 2007One of my potential client is getting DDOS occassionally. According to the DCs-PCCW and Singtel, the attacks come from China mainly and the DDOS used up all the available bandwidth.
I have asked many DC in Hong Kong. Most of them said they will only null route their IPs and wait the DDOS gone. It seems that none of the DC in HK offer any sort of Anti-DDOS solution.
My client don't want their site completely offline every time they got attacked. So, could any professional suggest what we can do?
What I am thinking of is:
1. Getting 2 connection from different bandwidth providers
2. Using Geo DNS: [url]
Then, I can separate all China users by forcing them to use 1 connection. Will this work? Is there any potential problem here?
Also, I am also thinking of using BGP. Will that make us partially visible as well?
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Jul 9, 2009it seems people tell Dos Deflate is the best basic antiddos script and tons of webhosts use it.
I think its ratter old and it doesnt work for anything these days. Why do hosts still run it? And why isnt there a better alternative?
I used Deflate some years ago and I got problems. And tried then after some years again and nothing changed, the same basic old script which counts connections and ban IPs.
The think with Deflate is that if you have a high limit, lets say ban with 150 connections per IPs, its absolutely worthless for attacks, since you are letting already 150 connections per IP.
And if you lower it at least me got with tons of problems banning real visitors. Even over 150 I had complaints about real visitors on a server telling the server blocks him. Dont ask me how someone has 150 connections to a servers but I got complaints from multiples people over the world the 1 month i had it running over a 2 years ago.
I also see a really big problem with it. Allot of ISP share IPs between users. So its really possible you get 200 connections from the same IP and they are different users. Banning an IP based on the connections you can probably shutdown a full IPS and their visitors. I wish there was a better solution but using a high value like 300 or 500 doesnt make sense in a Dos attack. And if you use a low value you start to get into problems.
We agree it will not work with distributed attacks but I dont think it can even work with single attacks since besides connection count it doesnt seem to be any more analisys behaviour.
The way I would make a script like that. Is to check all traffic and IPS all the time. And mark IPs that always access a server ass good ones. The newer the IP the more suspicious. On a attack this way real visitors would still pass but attackers will not as they are new ips. You can also match then the number of times its connecting, how long, etc.
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Our policies have always tried to stay a step ahead but it seems no matter what is done the occasional fraudster manages to squeeze through, costing us a lot of money. At one some point in early 2009, it got as bad as 60% of the orders we received. It ended up eating a LOT of our time just to go through each order and verify them as best we could.
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I'll start with some of the things we do.
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- We call the customer's telephone number and verify with them. - Verify the telephone number matches the region of the address they provide
- Require the CC issuing Bank's name and number
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