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I Left Port 22 Open on the Internet for 54 Days. Here's Who Showed Up. (arman-bd.hashnode.dev)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    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.

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