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Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Kelly :: Blacknight)
Sun Jun 22 05:52:12 2008

From: "Paul Kelly :: Blacknight" <paul@blacknight.com>
To: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:52:04 +0100
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

Hi there,

Have any of you recently noticed a lot of ssh scanning coming from amazons =
EC "cloud" IP blocks?

Today alone I've seen approx 4m attempts from EC2 IPs on just 20 nodes on o=
ur network.

Has anyone any experience with Amazons abuse people?

Thanks,

Paul

Paul Kelly
Technical Director
Blacknight Internet Solutions ltd
Hosting, Colocation, Dedicated servers
IP Transit Services
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