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Massiv dictionary attacks from <rackspace.com>



Hello Colleges and *,

since Sunday 19:47 CEST 18 of my servers are under heavy attack.

Currently I have counted over  18  million  login  attempts  (dictionary
attack) with a list of 1005 names an started with IP <50.56.180.220>.

--[ '/var/log/mail.log' ]-----------------------------------------------
Aug 12 19:47:32 vserver04 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220]
Aug 12 19:47:53 vserver04 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220]
Aug 12 19:47:54 vserver04 imapd: LOGIN FAILED, user=aaron, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220]
Aug 12 19:47:59 vserver04 imapd: Disconnected, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220], time=6
Aug 12 19:47:59 vserver04 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220]
Aug 12 19:47:59 vserver04 imapd: LOGIN FAILED, user=aaron, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220]
Aug 12 19:48:04 vserver04 imapd: Disconnected, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220], time=5
Aug 12 19:48:04 vserver04 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220]
Aug 12 19:48:04 vserver04 imapd: LOGIN FAILED, user=aaron, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220]
Aug 12 19:48:09 vserver04 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220]
Aug 12 19:48:09 vserver04 imapd: LOGIN FAILED, user=abby, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220]
Aug 12 19:48:10 vserver04 imapd: Disconnected, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220], time=6
Aug 12 19:48:10 vserver04 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220]
Aug 12 19:48:10 vserver04 imapd: Disconnected, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220], time=0
Aug 12 19:48:10 vserver04 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220]
Aug 12 19:48:10 vserver04 imapd: LOGIN FAILED, user=aaron, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220]
Aug 12 19:48:14 vserver04 imapd: Disconnected, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220], time=5
Aug 12 19:48:14 vserver04 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220]
Aug 12 19:48:14 vserver04 imapd: LOGIN FAILED, user=abby, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220]
Aug 12 19:48:16 vserver04 imapd: Disconnected, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220], time=6
Aug 12 19:48:16 vserver04 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220]
Aug 12 19:48:16 vserver04 imapd: LOGIN FAILED, user=aaron, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220]
Aug 12 19:48:19 vserver04 imapd: Disconnected, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220], time=5
Aug 12 19:48:19 vserver04 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220]
Aug 12 19:48:20 vserver04 imapd: LOGIN FAILED, user=abby, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220]
Aug 12 19:48:21 vserver04 imapd: Disconnected, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220], time=5
Aug 12 19:48:21 vserver04 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220]
Aug 12 19:48:21 vserver04 imapd: LOGIN FAILED, user=aaron, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220]
Aug 12 19:48:25 vserver04 imapd: Disconnected, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220], time=6
Aug 12 19:48:25 vserver04 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220]
Aug 12 19:48:25 vserver04 imapd: Disconnected, ip=[::ffff:50.56.180.220], time=0
<snip>
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I have encountered this problem tody, whil I saw, the logsize increased
by the factor 200!  Mean, my daily mail.log are arround 1.8 GByte!

Also since yesterday, I get similar attacks by 3 other IPs from the USA.

Does someone have encountered similar things?

Note:  I try to reach (a personaly known) FBI filed officer
       from New York since I work a PMC.

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
    Michelle Konzack

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