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My Droplet sending Brute Force attact?

Posted on April 19, 2014

Dear guys,

I have a droplet which I use as an email server. Applications that I installed there are:

  1. iRedmail,
  2. Phplist,
  3. MySql,
  4. Apache httpd

I had been using it for 3 months already, and suddenly I got a ticket from digitalocean support which shows that my droplet has been performing brute force attack against another server’s SSH …

My questions:

  1. How can I find out that my server does this things?
  2. How can I clean my server that might already invested by a BOTNET?

Thanks in advance, Bromo

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