Cisco Talos would like to acknowledge Anna Bennett and Brandon White of Cisco Talos and Phillip Schafer, Mike Moran, and Becca Lynch of the Duo Security Research team for their research that led to the identification of these attacks.
Cisco Talos is actively monitoring a global increase in brute-force attacks
For as long as I can remember, open SSH endpoints have been subject to password scan attacks from random corners of the internet. It’s just how life is.
The moment I install ssh is the moment I install fail2ban.