Question
A host from china try to ssh into my VM continuously
- Posted on January 5, 2015
Asked by houcheng
I’ve banned him and the attacker’s IP address is: 122.225.103.103.
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You’re bound to have all sorts of attackers that spoof their IP address. You may want to look at fail2ban to deal with attempted breakins. Also, look into key only ssh login instead of password authenticated logins.
fail2ban solves all (oh, and server passwords are sin, use keyfiles c:)