Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-27 Thread Alessandro Vesely via mailop
On Mon 26/Jul/2021 21:38:21 +0200 yuv wrote: On Mon, 2021-07-26 at 18:34 +0200, Alessandro Vesely via mailop wrote: On Tue 20/Jul/2021 04:17:31 +0200 Ángel via mailop wrote: On 2021-07-19 at 23:27 +0200, Slavko wrote: Dňa Sun, 18 Jul 2021 13:56:18 -0400 Bill Cole: The only usable way seems t

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-26 Thread yuv via mailop
On Mon, 2021-07-26 at 18:34 +0200, Alessandro Vesely via mailop wrote: > On Tue 20/Jul/2021 04:17:31 +0200 Ángel via mailop wrote: > > On 2021-07-19 at 23:27 +0200, Slavko wrote: > > > Dňa Sun, 18 Jul 2021 13:56:18 -0400 Bill Cole: > > > > > > > > The only usable way seems to be GoiIP blocking cou

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-26 Thread Alessandro Vesely via mailop
On Tue 20/Jul/2021 04:17:31 +0200 Ángel via mailop wrote: On 2021-07-19 at 23:27 +0200, Slavko wrote: Dňa Sun, 18 Jul 2021 13:56:18 -0400 Bill Cole: The only usable way seems to be GoiIP blocking countries, but i afraid that it is wrong way. Why? Hard to describe it in English for me, bu

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-23 Thread yuv via mailop
On Sun, 2021-07-18 at 13:56 -0400, Bill Cole via mailop wrote: > 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

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-19 Thread Ángel via mailop
On 2021-07-19 at 23:27 +0200, Slavko wrote: > Hi, > > Dňa Sun, 18 Jul 2021 13:56:18 -0400 Bill Cole: > > > > The only usable way seems to be GoiIP blocking countries, but i > > > afraid that it is wrong way. > > > > Why? > > Hard to describe it in English for me, but i will try. > > I consid

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-19 Thread Ángel via mailop
On 2021-07-18 at 22:29 -0400, John Levine via mailop wrote: > > I do wish it were easier to report and kill the drop boxes, though. > > It would be nice if regasignsd...@yahoo.com went away. I was only visited by that on July 9th. Others like mx-server.org are much more persistent here. Here ar

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-19 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
On 2021-07-19 at 17:27:58 UTC-0400 (Mon, 19 Jul 2021 23:27:58 +0200) Slavko via mailop is rumored to have said: Hi, Dňa Sun, 18 Jul 2021 13:56:18 -0400 Bill Cole via mailop napísal: The only usable way seems to be GoiIP blocking countries, but i afraid that it is wrong way. Why? Hard to

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-19 Thread Slavko via mailop
Hi, Dňa Sun, 18 Jul 2021 13:56:18 -0400 Bill Cole via mailop napísal: > > The only usable way seems to be GoiIP blocking countries, but i > > afraid that it is wrong way. > > Why? Hard to describe it in English for me, but i will try. I consider blocking access by country as discriminating

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-19 Thread Chris via mailop
On 2021-07-18 9:46 p.m., Patrick via mailop wrote: 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! I've been doing it for at least 5 years. When a co

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-19 Thread Slavko via mailop
Hi, Dňa Mon, 19 Jul 2021 00:34:40 +0100 Tim Bray via mailop napísal: > I didn't really get on with fail2ban.  I do have it running, but it > pulls very little for exim. > > I did write my own script to follow the exim mainlog with a bunch of > regexp and drop IP addresses into ipset.   (task

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-19 Thread Paul Smith 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? In case you don't know about it already, have a look at https://www.abuseipdb.com/ . Some people have scripts to report things like auth a

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 https://list.mailop.

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, an

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 reaso

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. Interesti

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, t

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

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-17 Thread Jesper via mailop
On 2021-07-17 22:13, 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've seen it for at least 16ish years, at work and on my personal servers. Mostly Brazil, South Korea, Turkey and Vietnam (+honourable

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-17 Thread Slavko via mailop
Hi, Dňa 17 Jul 2021 20:41:14 -0400 John Levine via mailop napísal: > It appears that Thomas Hochstein via mailop said: > About 12,000 here. It's a botnet, it's not targeting you any more > than any other random server it can find, and I don't know of any way > to block it. You can use somethi

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-17 Thread Andre van Eyssen via mailop
On Sat, 17 Jul 2021, Slavko via mailop wrote: Please, i want ask others if are these (mostly) Brasil attempts know to others too or am i "special" target? Some other questions, which comes to my minds without answers, while perhaps nobody here will/can know right answer, i will ask: Nope, this

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-17 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Thomas Hochstein via mailop said: >Slavko wrote: > >> Please, i want ask others if are these (mostly) Brasil attempts know to >> others too or am i "special" target? > >Personal server here too. > >| root@moria # grep 'Incorrect authentication data' /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1 | >wc

Re: [mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-17 Thread Thomas Hochstein via mailop
Slavko wrote: > Please, i want ask others if are these (mostly) Brasil attempts know to > others too or am i "special" target? Personal server here too. | root@moria # grep 'Incorrect authentication data' /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1 | wc -l | 1026 So, a bit more than 1.000 attempts yesterday. >

[mailop] SMTP AUTH harassment

2021-07-17 Thread Slavko via mailop
Hi all! I registered here only in recent time and this is my first post here (i am sorry, my English is not best)... In recent days i bother with many login attempt to my personal mail server, which i use for some years. I meet distributed dictionary attack to IMAP server which was partially bloc