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Re: RBL for bots?

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Thu Feb 15 12:04:18 2007


On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Drew Weaver wrote:
   Has anyone created an RBL, much like (possibly) the BOGON list which
includes the IP addresses of hosts which seem to be "infected" and are
attempting to brute-force SSH/HTTP, etc?

Bots are rarely single purpose engines. If they have been detected doing bad things, they will probably appear in multiple RBLs for multiple
reasons. If something is in multiple RBLs, even if it hasn't done the particular badness you are looking for, its probably just a matter of time.


Perhaps not surprising, some of the porn site vendors appear to have the most sophisticated systems for detecting brute force/password sharing
attacks.