Re: Growing sshd process count

[Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 7:22 PM Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 02:14:09PM -0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> > Someone is brute-forcing your account passwords.
>
> Thanks. I think blacklistd is protecting me.
>
> But doesn't this qualify as a DDOS attack? The VPS provider (Hetzner)
> claims to provide DDOS protection. Shouldn't it have triggered in this
> scenario?

Probably not. The point of that attack is probably to break into your
system, not deny others from accessing it. But maybe they accomplish
the second thing if they can't break in.

Andy