Re:Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
by wil421 on Thursday October 24, 2024 @11:04AM
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How can I do this to port scanners? They constantly scan my home network and my firewall complains.
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Re:Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
by cookiengineer on Thursday October 24, 2024 @11:46AM
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The script kiddie typical nmap/zmap scans are easily detectable. There are some forks that use different headers / window sizes though but they aren't that popular as far as I can tell from my experience.
Check out the methods that start with "is_filtered_nmap_" here: https://github.com/tholian-network/firewall/blob/master/kern...
Re:Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
by mordechai9000 on Thursday October 24, 2024 @01:14PM
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You would probably want a honeypot to lure them in. But I wouldn't expect the output to go through an LLM, although I wouldn't be surprised if I was wrong.
This stuff is just low level automated scanning looking for well known, easy exploits. Default credentials and stuff like that. A lot of it is trying to recruit hosts for illegal VPNs / proxies, DDOS service, and more scanning / propagation. My advice is to block it (maybe with an expiration time on the block), log it, and ignore it. But it can be fun to see what they do with a honeypot.