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by soneil 2103 days ago
If you get 10,000 attempts on port 22, you're probably connected to the internet. If you get 10,000 attempts on port 63290, someone has taken a specific interest in you.
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What are you going to do with this knowledge?
Personally? I'd decide the utility of having it public-facing is no longer worth the risk, and firewall it down to a much narrower set of source networks. I'd probably take a moment to brush up on my key hygiene too.
Maybe you should do these things before you realize that someone is trying to hack you?