What to do if a server is hacked? Will Red Hat assist with development of security rules and policies and root cause?
Issue
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There is reason to believe that my server was hacked
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The host started presenting abnormal behaviors
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Sudden jump in network bandwidth and/or traffic consumption
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Unknown allocated space on disks
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New users/groups created on the system with random names
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An unknown root SSH login happened
Jan 01 10:50:09 server sshd[444]: Accepted password for root from 61.32.27.191 port 4729 ssh2 Jan 01 10:50:09 server sshd[444]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
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Crond will not start
starting crond : /bin/bash: crond:command not found
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An untrusted IP address was able to login into my system
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) all versions
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