Totally agree, although I do tend to accumulate and block ssh attempts just to lower the noise on systems (all key-only) that have a fair number of actual ssh u

Totally agree, although I do tend to accumulate and block ssh attempts just to lower the noise on systems (all key-only) that have a fair number of actual ssh users. I have never, ever received a return message from an abuse@ address, except the automated no-reply. About half the probes and brute-force attacks I get are from commercial VPS companies (looking at you, Digital Ocean). Send an abuse report to DO, I dare you. It’s a comical array of “your response will be ignored unless you use our abuse API”, which... is also ignored. Edit: vpn -> vps