This server receives many brute force ssh login attempts per day. Many use common linux system user names like root, postgres, www and pi. A lot are also common surnames like Peter, Alex, Jack and Kim. This post is an attempt to make a midly interessting statistic from the data gathered. It shows that bots exist on the internet and that they try to find insufficiently secured servers. The accessing IPs are logged and their location was queried via geolocation-db.com (seems to be down now). This is of course not representative, because the location can be easily spoofed using a VPN and it is even very likely that malicious actors would use one to increase their anonymity on the internet. This has been done out of curiosity more than anything else and to test out the following tools:
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