Subj : Re: Hacker making all Mystic nodes "BUSY"
To   : Gandalf
From : esc
Date : Mon Feb 13 2023 10:55 pm

 Ga> Greetings and Salutations!  I am having an issue with a hacker who trys
 Ga> to crack my system password eventually making all of my nodes busy so
 Ga> that users cannot login.  When I periodically check Nodespy, all three
 Ga> of my nodes show a couple of system password attempts (in asterisk form)
 Ga> and a third prompt and the screen is hung.  I have to Alt(K)ick each
 Ga> node 2 or three times until it autobans the IP address.  Is there
 Ga> something I can do other than removing the system password prompt to
 Ga> keep this from happening?  (Linux Mint - Mystic 1.12 A48)

That sounds like a botnet :) My advice would be to do some country blocking. I believe if you looked at each of the IP addresses attempting this you'd find they come from specific places.

Also, I have the "botcheck" mod from phenom. It requires someone to press the escape key twice to proceed to the system password screen. This one confounds botnets pretty well.

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