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—Your Original Message Is Below—
Dear Sirs,
On 19th December 2007, a server on your IP range attempted to brute force the SSH daemon on one of my servers.
Can you please investigate this server and let me know what is done to ensure that this server does not attempt to brute force attack servers in future.
Please find below an excerpt from my server’s log files:
Dec 17 08:13:59 mx sshd[19630]: Did not receive identification string from 75.185.212.190
Dec 18 12:23:47 mx sshd[29039]: Did not receive identification string from 75.185.212.190
Dec 18 12:25:57 mx sshd[29042]: Invalid user test from 75.185.212.190
Dec 18 12:25:58 mx sshd[29046]: Invalid user ftpuser from 75.185.212.190
This abuse report is being tracked at: http://www.andymillar.co.uk/abuse/2007/12/19/75185212190/
Kind Regards,
Andy