Peter N. M. Hansteen<p>It will not be a surprise that the ovenight haul of new groped-for user IDs today included, almost <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hailmary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hailmary</span></a> style, a bunch of vaguely <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cryptocurrencly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cryptocurrencly</span></a> related ones, <a href="https://nxdomain.no/~peter/tuliptraders.txt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nxdomain.no/~peter/tuliptrader</span><span class="invisible">s.txt</span></a>, log extract <a href="https://nxdomain.no/~peter/tuliptraders-sshlog.txt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nxdomain.no/~peter/tuliptrader</span><span class="invisible">s-sshlog.txt</span></a>. Do <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cryptptulipcookers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cryptptulipcookers</span></a> actually run as users with passwords anywhere?</p><p>Of course all of those are in the list of imaginary friends, see <a href="https://nxdomain.no/~peter/hailmary_lessons_learned.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nxdomain.no/~peter/hailmary_le</span><span class="invisible">ssons_learned.html</span></a> and <a href="https://nxdomain.no/~peter/badness_enumerated_by_robots.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nxdomain.no/~peter/badness_enu</span><span class="invisible">merated_by_robots.html</span></a> for background. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sshgropers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sshgropers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/passwordguessing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>passwordguessing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cryptotulips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cryptotulips</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cybercrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybercrime</span></a></p>