Questions tagged [brute-force-attacks]
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Suspicion of brute force attack on mysql
In these last couple of days, one my vps server has crashed twice for no appearant reasons. All sytems on it are up to date. Fail2ban is installed and jailed as much as usual, I trust the server's provider company, the distibution system is Ubuntu…
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My web server is being hit, all resources are maxed out, how to find out the root cause?
Recently my websites appear to be getting hit by something. They slow down and become unresponsive. After I terminal connect to the server, I see that all resources are maxed out, 100% of CPU, Memory, and Swap memory.
This is starting to happen…
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PREVENT SQL SERVER 2005 ATTACK
I have an sql server 2005 instance running in default 1433 port. I am getting too many invalid logins from different ip address, may be some hacking programs trying to attack, i am running windows 2003 server, as the windows firewall doesn't have…
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A smart attack on SMTP evading fail2ban
I have an ongoing brute-force attack on my SMTP server in a way that evades typical fail2ban settings:
attacks take place from several IPs in the same subnet
a single IP attacks in intervals longer than an hour, apparently to evade being blocked…
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Windows and Apache Block IP by Country
I'm having DDoS attacks and brute force, my clients are only from a Latin American country and I did not find attacks from that country, so I think my solution would be to find a way to block ips from all countries except the country of my clients,…
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Automatic exim4 ban ip
I would like to know if it is possible to automatically ban/filter an IP for few time in case of multiple authentication failure in exim4 server.
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Brute force attack with no IP to trace
I am getting constant event 4625 messages saying that accounts are failing to log in with non-existent usernames. Names such as: SALES, USER, TEST, HELPDESK, SUPPORT, PROGRAMMER are not users of ours, but we are getting 20 or so messages every…
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How to ban abusers who use my public SOCKS5 proxy server to brutforce 3-rd party sites?
We have been thinking for very long time about it. It's easy to escape abusers who use my server to send email spam by blocking email ports, but how to ban abusers who use my public SOCKS5 proxy server to brutforce 3-rd party sites? The proxy server…
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Using iptables to prevent SSH brute force attacks and DDOS attacks
I have the following lines at the very top of iptables, these are used to prevent SSH brute force attacks and DDOS attacks:
iptables segment to prevent SSH brute force attacks and DDOS attacks
What bothers me here is "name: DEFAULT" in all three, I…
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is it possible to block proxy (or TOR) connection attempts on my server?
I have a website that gets about 2000 visitors/month, but I'm also getting about 500 break-in attempts per day. In auth.log every few minutes I get a 8 of these:
Oct 19 16:34:14 main-srv vsftpd[7361]: pam_unix(vsftpd:auth): authentication failure;…
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Limit Wordpress login to certain ip-addresses on Nginx and PHP-FPM
I've seen a lot of bruce force attacks on Wordpress, so I want to limit access to wp-login.php.
It's the latest Wordpress on a Ubuntu 16.04LTS Nginx server with PHP-FPM.
I've tried the advice from the Wordpress Codex:
location /wp-admin {
allow …
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Suspicious requests from same IP
I am checking my apache error log, and I see a weird pattern.
Same IP requests, within 1 second, pages that are 'common' in websites: wp,wordpress,joomla.. etc.
Because this specific domain doesn't have any of these folders, it returns immediately…
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Stop and prevent brute force attacks on Ubuntu 14.04
I've currently 3 servers with SSH service being attacked by brute force. The attack is from multiple sources or one who's changing his IP with each attempt performed.
I need help to stop current attacks and protect/prevent from future ones.
I've…
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Monitor outgoing web traffic sources on CentOS
I received a report today that a server I manage (Centos + Apache) is launching a bruteforce attack against wordpress websites:
hacked-joomla/brobot
The requests sent look like this:
x.x.x.x - - [15/Nov/2015:19:37:14 +0100] "POST wp-login.php…
Jason Carter
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mod_evasive: Stop attacks against wp-login.php
i would like to stop attacks against some user's WordPress-installations on my server.
This is an example of an attack:
91.208.65.12 - - [20/Oct/2015:10:33:08 +0200] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 403 1317 "-" "-"
91.208.65.12 - -…
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