The IP 144.0.0.60 has just been banned by Fail2Ban after 19 attempts against SSH. Latest lines containing IP:144.0.0.60 in /var/log/syslog/sshd.log Sep 26 23:14:17 ftlogin1 sshd[10503]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for root from 144.0.0.60 Sep 26 23:14:17 ftlogin1 sshd[10503]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 144.0.0.60 port 5499 ssh2 Sep 26 23:14:17 ftlogin1 sshd[10506]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for root from 144.0.0.60 Sep 26 23:14:17 ftlogin1 sshd[10506]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 144.0.0.60 port 5511 ssh2 Sep 26 23:14:18 ftlogin1 sshd[10500]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for root from 144.0.0.60 Sep 26 23:14:18 ftlogin1 sshd[10500]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 144.0.0.60 port 5487 ssh2 Sep 26 23:14:18 ftlogin1 sshd[10509]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for root from 144.0.0.60 Sep 26 23:14:18 ftlogin1 sshd[10509]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 144.0.0.60 port 5555 ssh2 Sep 26 23:14:18 ftlogin1 sshd[10516]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for root from 144.0.0.60 Sep 26 23:14:18 ftlogin1 sshd[10516]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 144.0.0.60 port 5662 ssh2 - Fail2ban on