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"Peak Stupid" - I wrote this piece, "Password Gropers Take the Spamtrap Bait" (nxdomain.no/~peter/password_gr or with G's trackers bsdly.blogspot.com/2014/08/pas) a little more than 10 years ago.

Mid-Sep 2024 I generated a block of spamtraps on the pattern "drone???@spartmaps.lfja.org" because that subdomain part sounded like fun, and lo and behold, those local parts started turning up on pop3 on Nov 10 (your curiosity satsified nxdomain.no/~peter/202411_popf).

nxdomain.noPassword Gropers Take the Spamtrap Bait

If you found the #hailmary tag confusing in the previous, the summary article from some years back will possibly make for reading up on that particular weirdness during the long evenings ahead - "The Hail Mary Cloud and the Lessons Learned" nxdomain.no/~peter/hailmary_le or prettified, tracked bsdly.blogspot.com/2013/10/the #passwordgropers #passwords #passwordguessing #ssh #cybercrime

nxdomain.noThe Hail Mary Cloud And The Lessons Learned

I have just updated the article "The Hail Mary Cloud And The Lessons Learned" nxdomain.no/~peter/hailmary_le aka field notes from the forever war against #passwordgropers on #ssh and elsewhere, with loads of more references to newer material and data #slowbrutes #hailmarycloud #bruteforcers #cybercrime

All links to my stuff has (at least) a nontracked option .

nxdomain.noThe Hail Mary Cloud And The Lessons Learned

The #sshgropers are really throwing everything at the wall these days:

Aug 18 14:36:54 skapet sshd-session[71375]: Failed password for invalid user GNU/Linux from 4.247.176.60 port 39582 ssh2

#ssh #passwordgropers #passwordguessing #bruteforce #passwords #cybercrime

Also see nxdomain.no/~peter/hailmary_le (prettier, G-tracked: bsdly.blogspot.com/2013/10/the) and badness_enumerated_by_robots.html (prettified, G-tracked bsdly.blogspot.com/2018/08/bad)

nxdomain.noThe Hail Mary Cloud And The Lessons Learned

I *know* you love #passwordgropers, so given this line in my authlog,

Aug 15 21:43:28 skapet sshd-session[18507]: Failed password for invalid user Can't open lax from 2a02:4780:12:2159::1 port 45854 ssh2

what on earth happened here?

For reference, see the Hail Mary cloud summary (2013) nxdomain.no/~peter/hailmary_le or with G's trackers and nicer formatting bsdly.blogspot.com/2013/10/the

nxdomain.noThe Hail Mary Cloud And The Lessons Learned