I had a machine running for two weeks on the public cloud. Every few seconds there was an automated SSH login attempt. Here is the full list of usernames - some of which are quite curious.

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  • SecLists

    SecLists is the security tester's companion. It's a collection of multiple types of lists used during security assessments, collected in one place. List types include usernames, passwords, URLs, sensitive data patterns, fuzzing payloads, web shells, and many more.

    • Typical of the sorts of information a tester/attacker might be using from: Daniel Miessler's SecLists

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    • Nice, I have a list as well as the number of times each was tried: https://github.com/nik282000/DontUseTheseNames/blob/main/UIDList_Count.csv

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