I saw the same thing about a month ago, only the selection of usernames
was much wider, including graceland, metro, elvis, matrix and many more
including guest and test. It was traced to a host in Japan but I
haven't heard back from them if any action was taken. Maybe the current
wave is a cut-down version of a more comprehensive tool? Attacks on my
client's servers went on for about an hour at a time.

Andrew J Caines wrote:

>FWIW, here's what I've seen on my single IP cable connection:
>
>Jul 17 04:54:46 test 129.194.21.5
>Jul 17 04:54:47 guest 129.194.21.5
>Jul 22 04:38:49 test 61.237.13.234
>Jul 22 04:38:52 guest 61.237.13.234
>Jul 23 10:55:46 test 61.109.156.5
>Jul 23 10:55:49 guest 61.109.156.5
>Jul 24 19:40:48 test 202.6.75.195
>Jul 24 19:40:50 guest 202.6.75.195
>Jul 24 20:24:31 test 69.0.134.72
>Jul 24 20:24:31 guest 69.0.134.72
>Jul 24 20:24:32 admin 69.0.134.72
>Jul 24 20:24:33 admin 69.0.134.72
>Jul 24 20:24:34 user 69.0.134.72
>Jul 24 20:24:37 test 69.0.134.72
>Jul 25 02:51:10 test 211.202.3.148
>Jul 25 02:51:12 guest 211.202.3.148
>Jul 25 16:30:34 test 219.234.216.150
>Jul 25 16:30:37 guest 219.234.216.150
>Jul 27 16:12:08 test 210.92.210.67
>Jul 27 16:12:10 guest 210.92.210.67
>Jul 28 11:52:43 test 65.61.98.16
>Jul 28 11:52:45 guest 65.61.98.16
>
>The timing and distribution of userids indicates to me that this is more
>than a simple probe for vulnerable SSH servers.
>
>
>
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