Always start here...  http://www.spamhaus.org/drop/

If the AS is stolen, you can block the network and never have to worry
about it...


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On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Steve Howes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Given the recent increase in SIP brute force attacks, I've had a little idea.
>
> The standard scripts that block after X attempts work well to prevent you 
> actually being compromised, but once you've been 'found' then the attempts 
> seem to keep coming for quite some time. Older versions of sipvicious don't 
> appear to stop once you start sending un-reachables (or straight drops). Now 
> this isn't a problem for Asterisk, but it does add up in (noticeable) 
> bandwidth costs - and for people running on lower bandwidth connections. The 
> tool to crash sipvicious can help this, but very few attackers seem to obey 
> it..
>
> The only way I can see to alleviate this, is to blacklist hows *before* they 
> attack. This means you wont ever be targeted past an initial scan.
>
> Is there any interest in a 'shared' blacklist (similar to spam blacklists, 
> but obviously implemented in a way that is more usable with 
> Asterisk/iptables)?. Clearly it raises issues about false positives etc, but 
> requiring reports from more than X hosts should alleviate this. There's all 
> the usual de-listing / false-listing worries as with any blacklist, but the 
> SMTP world has solutions we could learn from.
>
> Leaving a 'honeypot' running on a single IP address has revealed a few 
> hundred addresses in less than a month. I am fairly certain these are all 
> 'bad' as this host isn't used for anything else. There is obviously a wealth 
> of data (and attacks) out there that would be good to share.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts?
>
> S
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