@Kul
To mitigate the issue evaluate which ports do you need for your hosts to communicate with the internet, in most cases your server will not need to initiate SSH connections, apply same principle for all hosts in your network.
It's a very common mistake when doing bi-directional rules, many people think that if you need to access via SSH to a server you have to create two rules or a bidirectional one (One for outgoing traffic and another for incoming with same services), this is totally wrong.
After that, track in your logs which hosts attempted to do SSH connections (src: host and port 22) so you can isolate it until cleaning.
Hope it helps,
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