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Re: Continuous brute force attempt from own server !!!



On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 08:35:48AM +0100, Dom wrote:
>At the remote linux server, I can found huge brute force ssh attempt at the different
>port and surprisingly the attempt is made with the same username which I actually use
>to llog into the remote box. Some of the messages from log are as below
>
>accepted public key from<username_of_my_local_box>  from<WAN_IP_of_my_local_box>  port 50574 ssh2

It's a bit confusing. Are you saying you see lot of connections coming from
your local host? if so you can use

netstat -tnpa 

to see tcp network sockets and it should show all the processes connecting to
your remote host.

mk


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