Cobalt VS CrowdSec

Cobalt mentions (0)

CrowdSec mentions (113)

• Did you have serious attacks on your exposed services before?

  This tool crowdsec.net is really interesting to mitigate and enact defense systems for different scenarios. Source: about 1 year ago

• What service can I use to ban users?

  You should check out https://crowdsec.net. More advanced, uses crowdsources cti to block attacks even before they happen. Also both nginx and captcha is supported. Disclaimer: I am head of community. Visit /r/CrowdSec or our Discord at https://discord.gg/crowdsec if you have questions :-). Source: over 1 year ago

• A 'leech-like' connection constantly established on my server

  Before falling too much in love with Fail2Ban try taking a look at https://crowdsec.net. Similar functionality but way more advanced (but easier to configure). New project that leverages the power of the crowd and shares information of attacks among users so they help each other out protecting themselves. Source: over 1 year ago

• Banning users for certain actions

  You could try out https://crowdsec.net. It’s an advanced FOSS framework for detecting a number of different attacks and not limited to just brute force attacks like Fail2Ban as /u/nonself suggests. The basic concept of CrowdSes is that it reads log, detects attacks, mitigates attacks (CrowdSec integrates directly into the Flask application) and shares information about those attacks with everyone else using... Source: over 1 year ago

• Block traffic from every country except the USA? - Apache2/SSH

  Not what you suggested but have you considered https://crowdsec.net? Not just a collaborative and more advanced version of Fail2Ban but in this case you want it because of the collaborative blocklist; we made an article showing that 92% of attacks was blocked in advanced by ip reputation before any attacks were performed. Disclaimer: I am head of community so I might be a bit biased. It’s still a cool FOSS project... Source: over 1 year ago