Tobias FiebigThere is just... SO MUCH... wrong with this.
Aurin Azadî@tfiebig I wouldn't call 21 hits within 24 hrs „brute force“ … not nice, but not brute force.
@atarifrosch It's the scans for the Catch-22 work (identifying compromised hosts via an SSH feature that lets you test whether a public key is installed or not. ;-))
This one: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity25-munteanu.pdf
@tfiebig Okaaay m)
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@tfiebig I am facing my palm.
For a long while now I've been thinking that technical organizations that have to deal with spurious / BS abuse reports should simply charge a processing fee against the frequent sources of these BS abuse reports.
After a second shitty report, they get an e-mail about what was shitty about it and that if these points are repeated in their next abuse report, they will be invoiced.
After the third, they get invoiced.
@rysiek I actually started to do that to a DMCA takedown thing. Only stopped after I cc'ed finance to ask for their invoice address, insisting that them continuing to send (repeated, timed out) reports after I told them the next one will be charged was essentially agreement to my terms.
Alan Langford 🇨🇦🧤🧊摏@tfiebig @rysiek Yes, that's it! Instead of reporting a "brute force" [LOL], the original message should have said that the SSH probing was causing reports to be generated that required billable human intervention, and that any further probing was essentially agreement to their terms and would result in an invoice.
Amber 
Martin ███████@tfiebig Love how the replies so far are ignoring the elephant in the room. 🐘
@unixtippse WHICH ONE? 🤣 It is like one of those pictures that gets worse the longer you look at it.
@tfiebig No spoilers. 🤐
@unixtippse I am honestly not sure whteher _I_ already found all. ;-P
cubeos
Niko@niko And we have a winner. ;-P
Reply:
We are happy to honor your opt out request. For that, please
send us the output of:
ip a s
And add the following line to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
ssh-ed25519 ...
With best regards,
NOC
Andy