I recently faced a strange issue after configuring and trying to connect to an SSL VPN hosted on a DrayTek Router. I initially updated the DrayTek Smart VPN Client to the latest release 5.6.3 which did not resolve the issue. I then decided to change the SSL VPN Users password and identified that the below error was a result of using the £ symbol in the SSL VPN Users password. Once I removed the £ symbol from the password I was able to connect without error. It’s possible that other special characters may cause the same problem so if you also encounter this error I would initially suggest simplifying your password for testing purposes.
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How to Block Brute Force Attacks
IPinfo allows you to reliably identify important information about an abusive IP including City, Region and Country. It also provides abuse information that will allow you to report the abuse to the netblock owner, you will usually need to provide Firewall and/or event logs that detail the attack. In some instances the attack may have been made from an anonymous VPN service, they are unlikely to have any logs of who undertook the attack but may be able to block your IP address or IP Range from their network.
https://ipinfo.io/
It’s very useful to be able to block traffic based on the country its originating from, so many of the Brute Force attacks that we face on a daily basis originate from a small number of countries. Many popular Firewalls provide this feature either as standard or as part of an additional security service subscription.
Watchguard – Geolocation
Fortinet – Geo IP block list
Sophos Firewall – country-based firewall rule
SonicWall – Geo-IP filter
Smoothwall – GeoBlocking
Draytek – Country Object or Geo-Blocking
Untangle NG Firewall – geolocation
pfSense (with pfBlockerNG Package) – geo-blocking
Reporting Malicious or Phishing Sites
A useful list of providers where you can report Malicious or Phishing Sites
Virus Total – https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url
SPAM404 – https://www.spam404.com/report.html
BrightCloud – https://www.brightcloud.com/tools/url-ip-lookup.php
ESET – https://phishing.eset.com/en-us/report
Sophos – https://support.sophos.com/support/s/filesubmission?language=en_US
Google – https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_general/
Microsoft – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/support/report-unsafe-site-guest
Cyren – https://www.cyren.com/security-center/url-category-check-gate
Dr.Web – https://vms.drweb.com/sendvirus/
Fortinet – https://www.fortiguard.com/faq/wfratingsubmit
Forcepoint – https://csi.forcepoint.com/
Bitdefender – https://www.bitdefender.com/consumer/support/answer/29358/#scroll-to-heading-2
SCUMWARE.ORG – https://www.scumware.org/add_url.php