Probably check on your smart appliances
A security researcher has discovered that a massive volume of web scraping traffic originates from compromised smart appliances acting as proxies. The data suggests that global botnet activity is significantly higher than previously tracked by standard threat lists.
Why it matters
The proliferation of insecure IoT devices poses a growing threat to internet infrastructure and website integrity through automated scraping and potential malware distribution.
TL;DR: is your refrigerator running malware? If so, you better catch it!
The scraping problem is worse than anyone can imagine and thanks to my friends at Sourceware we have some real data to prove it.
I've been working more on Anubis' reputation database and I've run into a really weird discovery: 80-90% of the hits created by the honeypot feature are from IP addresses that do not belong to any existing threat monitoring lists.
Here's a breakdown of the honeypot hits Sourceware has gotten in the last few months:
In case this interests you, I have put the full tables in Appendix A: Full tables for the reputation database input .
Methodology note: "provider" here means one of two things:
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