[ale] SIP attack

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Fri Oct 15 21:04:01 EDT 2010


On 10/14/2010 04:10 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Thu October 14 2010, Chris Fowler wrote:
>> Our PBX was attacked and hacked.  Lost about $72 in SIP charges.  I've
>> implemented fail2ban and have changed our passwords.  Looking at other
>> things to do as well.
>>
>> I know fail2ban works because there was an attempt today and fail2ban
>> did exactly what it should.
> 
> # dpkg --list|grep fail      
> ii  fail2ban                                                0.8.4-2                              
> bans IPs that cause multiple authentication errors
> 
> implemented fail2ban a while back.. just because I CAN :)
> 
> seems to me I get an email every so often with updates on how many entries I 
> have..

Did you set it up specifically to monitor the logs of your voip
software? Here is an example for asterisk.

http://blog.erben.sk/2010/04/18/blocking-sip-brute-force-attacks-with-fail2ban/

-- 
All the best,
Brian Pitts


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