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Subject: Re: SSH honeypot: what 3,500 sessions/day look like Date: Tue Sep 01 2026 02:42:44
From: ant To: Echo0

Echo0:

> For the Unix crowd: I run Cowrie on port 22 and it sees
> ~3,500 sessions a day.

There are several more methods of preventing this:

  1.  fail2ban, blocklistd, and the like,

  2.  drop ping requests silently (via firewall config), to
      prevent the automated discovery of your server

  3.  connect to SSH via ephemeral ports.
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