Edit: The post was probably heavily AI written and contains mistakes to that effect, which is unfortunate. The data in general is still interesting though.
tf is a web scraper engineer, gen ai?
A professional web scraper and data extraction expert …
Looks like he’s a tool … maybe sed/awk?
I’m kind of disappointed that
bigboobzwasn’t on the top of the password list.Years ago I had a synology NAS that was sleeping itself to death. Support told me open up port 22 and forward the port to the open internet. They would get to and poke around. I told them it was a terrible idea, can I at least set a password?
No. But you can set up ip autoban.
I no longer use synology. I gave it away.
The Belgian traffic? Almost entirely from a single residential IP — one box that sent over 156,000 login attempts, more than the entire country of Germany. It just sat there, hammering echo “\x6F\x6B” over and over, every single second, for weeks. Relentless.
Had a funny similar thing, there’s some weird person/people that randomly probe and attack a specific game’s community hosted dedicated servers; and one week this specific IP address out of Virginia was just hammering one of mine, with what amounts to a specific byte sequence, then an incrementing number of the packet (until it wrapped around). Then it stopped. Weird shit.
It’s possible it was something misconfigured, a poorly-written script, or a bug in some software causing unexpected behavior. At the scale of the Internet, all of those are very possible.
It could also be the Internet equivalent of a numbers station.
It’s was a pretty specific non standard port on UDP. It’s not even doing proper scanning since the byte sequence used isn’t one that would trigger a response challenge/ack. My guess is someone trying to DOS using an older byte sequence that used to choke/kill the server software on older versions.
Thanks for the warning OP
If they used AI, then I consider they lost all credibility.
For me it is not only that they used AI for the writing, is that they did not care to review/recheck/polishing it before releasing it to the public, so my effort in consuming it will be reciprocal
and contains mistakes to that effect
What mistakes?
At one point it said only 28 IPs came back and those 31 were clever. Or something to that effect.
