Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world Konala Koala @lemmy.world 4 mo. ago

Constantly getting possible hack attempt floods from certain IP addresses.

This is infuriating that I continue to get this repeats of nine and more possible hack attempts from the same certain IP addresses blocked by Malwarebytes, which I get popups every time it happens. This is a snapshot from my logs after one has happened, and I also save text file logs of it.

From what I can tell, they appeared to be originating from Linode almost every time and when I tried to file complaints with them, they keep claiming it is a security researcher or something and end up doing nothing about it. I'm currently wondering what to do about this as I have a folder of so many save logs of it on my computer.

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It's normal to get scans/attempts on any public IP.

That said, malwarebytes is usually run on personal computers, do you have ports forwarded to your PC from the internet?
- No, I don't have any ports forwarded to my PC from the internet as far as I'm aware.
  
  If they are making it past your firewall and hitting your computer then the firewall is open and it shouldn’t be. Or that’s an outbound connection triggering the alert.
  
  Hmm maybe these are outgoing traffic in that case, does it tell you the src/dst info?
just drop the traffic and get on with your life
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If you don't have any of those ports open, then just ignore it. There are lots of bots out there that are just scanning for easy targets.

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