I use logwatch on my server, now I get thousands of these lines in the report email:
--------------------- pam_unix Begin ------------------------
proftpd:
Unknown Entries:
check pass; user unknown: 339 Time(s)
authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=::ffff:62.115.255.98 : 27 Time(s)
authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=::ffff:188.102.152.23 : 7 Time(s)
...
I already have loglevel Low