SSH brute forcing

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SSH services with password-based authentication are subject to brute force or dictionary-based attacks.

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ssh command

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ssh is a command line client for the SSH protocol. ssh allows users to login to and execute commands on remote machines in a secure manner.

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SSH handshake

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The SSH handshake is the initial process of a SSH session in which the client and server exchange cryptographic keys and set themselves up to ...

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SSH key

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SSH keys are a pair of public and private keys used by ssh clients and servers to establish a secure, encrypted session.

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SSH key persistence

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malware or threat actors may add their own public keys to .authorized_keys files as a form of persistence.

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SSH key theft

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SSH keys are lucrative targets for malware and attackers. They may provide additional lateral movement opportunities and access to systems that cannot ...

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SSH keystroke packets

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SSH packets are sent by the client and immediately echoed back by the server. They are also roughly the same size.

This can be used to detect human ...

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SSH nested session

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A nested SSH session occurs when a user connects to one host using ssh, then subsequently connects to another system from that host.

Nested SSH ...

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SSH scanning

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malware that spreads via SSH often includes components that do wide-scale scans for SSH servers.

SSH scanning can also be done for research purposes ...

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ssh SOCKS proxy

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OpenSSH clients can be used to proxy SOCKS over SSH:

ssh -D LOCAL_PORT -C -N user@REMOTE_HOST

This exposes a SOCKS proxy on LOCAL_PORT through ...

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