Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-18 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Patrick via mailop <201901-mai...@planhack.com> said: >Wow. A fake auth module would seem to invite spam storms. Which for some might >be handle-able and a good way to learn interactively with botnets? All mine does is say that the AUTH worked and send the subsequent message on a

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-18 Thread Patrick via mailop
Wow. A fake auth module would seem to invite spam storms. Which for some might be handle-able and a good way to learn interactively with botnets? Has anyone implemented such a thing? Thanks! ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-18 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Al Iverson via mailop said: >I get many of these attempts too, and since I have no need for SMTP >AUTH at all, I use it all as suggestions of IPs to ban. I have a fake auth module that pretends to work and sends the message off to the spam trap. The messages have the IP, user,

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-18 Thread Tim Bray via mailop
On 17/07/2021 21:13, Slavko via mailop wrote: Please, i want ask others if are these (mostly) Brasil attempts know to others too or am i "special" target? I seem to get continuous SMTP stuff.  Work is much worse than my personal server.  But we have 10's of domains and due to historical

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-18 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
I get many of these attempts too, and since I have no need for SMTP AUTH at all, I use it all as suggestions of IPs to ban. I do it with a very simple script like this: https://pastebin.com/5HtCFY7K It'd be easy to spruce this up and add some sort of tracking mechanism or counts or something, but

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-18 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
This particular botnet, (and you can tell this strain by the password list attempted, and the number of attempts from each IP) appears to come from at least two(2) actors, one which is a windows malware on older windows machines, and the other uses the gpon/router compromisd botnets.

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-18 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
On 2021-07-18 at 06:43:51 UTC-0400 (Sun, 18 Jul 2021 12:43:51 +0200) Slavko via mailop is rumored to have said: [...] The only usable way seems to be GoiIP blocking countries, but i afraid that it is wrong way. Why? If you have no users who need to authenticate from a particular network,

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-18 Thread Slavko via mailop
Hi, Dňa Sun, 18 Jul 2021 06:54:07 +0200 Slavko via mailop napísal: > To see from where they come i did simple Python(3) script, which reads > list of IP from stdin and prints some stats based on GeoLite2 DBs. > When i feed it with IPs parsed from today dovecot's fail2ban log i > can see: Seems