On 14 Mar 2024, AKAcastor said the following...

Sounds very interesting, the extra features sound awesome. Looking forward to hearing more!

Yes I and those of us who run Image BBS also are looking forward to it, the ML parts of it are basically done and being tested. The Basic code portion of it is still a ways away. Shouldn't be too hard to write that code so hopefully soon...

The bots sure are tenacious! I have been logging attempts to connect,
to see the default credentials being tested, and use these as keywords
to identify bots - for example, if someone connects and the first thing they type is 'root' - that's a bot. That triggers a temporary IP ban (which extends in duration each time it is triggered), which has worked well.

They are pitiful, I have my router blocking 9 different countries right now, I will most likely be adding a couple of more soon. After that Mystic has a 1.2 meg file of blocked IP's over the past 6 years... Unreal..

In the past couple weeks, 42 different times the IP 190.211.255.106 connected to me and was banned. The same IP connected another 141 times while banned.

5 different times the IP 153.0.123.152 connected to me and was banned. The same IP connected another 1248 times while banned!

I've had 2345 unique IPs trigger bans in the past month or so. It's at least kinda interesting to study. :)

Chris/akacastor

It's just gonna keep getting worse.. BTW sorry for taking so long to respond to this, for some reason this Echo got shut off on my scan list.. Jeez...

Al

... Youth is glorious, but it isn't a career

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