[ale] [OT] Chinese brute-force network?

[Jim Kinney]

Sounds like a new dev/null IP range.
I get hit at home by a few hundred a week. Once I took the time to sort by
time and noticed the incoming IP order matched nearly every day. I just
dropped in fail2ban and the noise level went way down.
On May 29, 2014 4:05 PM, "Dustin Strickland" <dustin.h.strickland at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I usuallly don't do this, but I feel oddly compelled to ask. Over the
> past 3 days(and perhaps longer than that, but my logs were wiped on a
> reboot) I've been getting failed SSH login attempts in my logs from a
> bunch of different IPs in the range 116.10.191.1-254. I thought this
> was really unusual; typically, you'll get a few attempts over the
> course of 15 minutes to a few hours from ONE IP, but this has been going
> on steady for days. After researching a bit to try to find who owns this
> network, I found this:
>
> http://bannedhackersips.blogspot.com/2014/05/fail2ban-ssh-banned-11610191211_7510.html
>
> `grep 116.10.191. /var/log/auth.log -c` returns 2920. Can you guys
> check your logs and post the results(and specultation)? Something isn't
> right about this, I think.
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