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

Chuck Payne terrorpup at gmail.com
Thu May 29 16:44:36 EDT 2014


Dustin,

I had to do the same thing.  I did iptables and route, just to make sure
they are blocked.

Chuck


On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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