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I Left Port 22 Open on the Internet for 54 Days. Here's Who Showed Up. (arman-bd.hashnode.dev)
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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.

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[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

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.