A criminal group whose actions have at times been responsible for one-third of the Internet’s SSH traffic—most of it in the form of SSH brute force attacks—has been cut off from a portion of the ...

The number of brute-force SSH attacks is rising, the SANS Internet Storm Center warned on Monday. There "has been a significant amount of brute force scanning reported by some of our readers and on ...

Security experts are warning about a fresh round of attacks against SSH implementations. The attacks are brute-force attempts to authenticate to remote SSH servers, a tactic that has been used quite ...

Tracked by analysts since mid-June, RapperBot malware has spread through brute-force attacks on SSH servers. The IoT botnet targets devices running on ARM, MIPS, SCARC, and x86 architectures, ...

A new botnet called 'RapperBot' is being used in attacks since mid-June 2022, focusing on brute-forcing its way into Linux SSH servers to establish a foothold on the device. The researchers show that ...

New reports are filtering in to SANS' Internet Storm Center about a new SSH brute force script, possibly named "dd_ssh." New reports are filtering in to SANS' Internet Storm Center about a new SSH ...

Thanks to the end-of-term for many colleges and some K12 schools, brute-force attacks against SSH servers surged sharply this past weekend, according to the SANS Internet Storm Center. The sudden jump ...

We're seeing a lot of SSH brute-force attempts against our remote systems recently. These are 10.3 with the firewall on; we use SSH for remote admin. Turning it off is an option, but a last-resort one ...

Content delivery network service provider Akamai Technologies released a new report on Wednesday (PDF) stating that hackers are taking advantage of a 12-year-old vulnerability in OpenSSH to gain ...

Botnets have been growing more prevalent, and SophosLabs has discovered a new family of denial-of-service (DoS) bots used in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The family, dubbed Chalubo, ...