What to do if a server is hacked? Will Red Hat assist with development of security rules and policies and root cause?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • There is reason to believe that my server was hacked

  • The host started presenting abnormal behaviors

  • Sudden jump in network bandwidth and/or traffic consumption

  • Unknown allocated space on disks

  • New users/groups created on the system with random names

  • 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)
    
  • Crond will not start

    starting crond : /bin/bash: crond:command not found
    
  • An untrusted IP address was able to login into my system

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) all versions

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