Hi,

I received an email from my WebHost Manager/cPanel with the following message:

Time: Sat Oct 10 17:17:49 2009 +0800
IP: 200.48.39.5 (PE/Peru/-)
Failures: 5 (sshd)
Interval: 300 seconds
Blocked: Permanent Block

Log entries:

Oct 10 17:17:38 data sshd[17521]: Failed password for root from 200.48.39.5 port 16923 ssh2
Oct 10 17:17:38 data sshd[17527]: Failed password for root from 200.48.39.5 port 47981 ssh2
Oct 10 17:17:44 data sshd[17811]: Failed password for root from 200.48.39.5 port 17837 ssh2
Oct 10 17:17:44 data sshd[17812]: Failed password for root from 200.48.39.5 port 48883 ssh2
Oct 10 17:17:48 data sshd[18172]: Failed password for root from 200.48.39.5 port 19214 ssh2
Is this a hacking attempt?

This is the first time I received this kind of message after using WebHost Manager for quite some time. Thanks.