Large scale Internet SSH brute force attacks seem to have stopped here

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  • crowdsec

    CrowdSec - the open-source and participative security solution offering crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs and access to the most advanced real-world CTI.

  • The CrowdSec folks have something similar to that:

    https://crowdsec.net/ https://github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec

  • tinyssh

    TinySSH is small server (less than 100000 words of code)

  • > [after] hardening steps [...] most of the bots can't even negotiate a connection

    Yep, same here, except I'm using [tinyssh], which organically does not support anything other than ed25519/curve25519, sha256, and chacha-poly.

    [tinyssh] https://tinyssh.org/

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  • endlessh

    SSH tarpit that slowly sends an endless banner

  • masscan

    TCP port scanner, spews SYN packets asynchronously, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes.

  • "Not hard", to say the least, yeah:

    https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan

  • server-side-tls

    Server side TLS Tools

  • Same for www. Ratchet up the TLS/SSL - https://ssl-config.mozilla.org/ - go for modern and you'll see a lot of failed connections from bots and scanners.

    Also, if you don't use any other IP block list, do use DROP from Spamhaus: https://www.spamhaus.org/drop/ - that is small enough that you can run it on the webserver if you don't have much control over your connection to the outside world.

  • laravel-echo-server

    Discontinued Socket.io server for Laravel Echo

  • ssh-tarpit

    SSH tarpit that slowly sends an endless banner

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • sshlog

    Discontinued Patch to log OpenSSH Passwords (by 62726164)

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