chinese hackers are very common
daily I used to get around 10 to 20 bruteforce hacking attempts (thru SSH) in the singapore server (I once had)... the solution was to use a security certificate authentication and change the SSH port from the default 22 to some other one
I was very scared at the beginning to see a lot of connections in SSH (netstat) when there should be only one - mine
so I googled this and was surprised to see a lot of articles about brute force attacks mainly from chinese ips via SSH to gain access to the root account
probably even this forum receives a lot of attacks daily
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Originally Posted by Cyrus_the_virus
What makes you think it's not an attack by US hackers sponsored by the Federal govt using chinese proxy servers to get indian details to push the Nuclear deal?
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wow you can be a perfect conspiracy theorist
btw dont make generalised statements about our IT heads... may be true in govt offices, dept.s etcetra but there are a lot of best brains in our Intelligence agencies and in particular RAW. If matters are that serious they will take care.
in this case even the CERT was not involved so its probably a routine hacking attempt like I said above... would have succeeded cos of vulnerable Windows systems
and using linux is not the only solution even linux servers are to be security hardened...
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