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Russian and Chinese ISPs are blocked on out network in the name of "security" as if real attackers would not use AWS or a western VPS provider. It is a pain wh
by anilakar 3y ago
Russian and Chinese ISPs are blocked on out network in the name of "security" as if real attackers would not use AWS or a western VPS provider.
It is a pain when you need to download material from your hardware suppliers' web sites.
- jeroenhd 3y agoTo be fair to those ISPs, most SSH connection attempts in my logs seem to come from consumer IP addresses. Many of them in China, but also a whole bunch in South America. I think it's because of hacked IoT crapware and other malware adding unsuspecting people to a botnet. I doubt anyone is renting hundreds of internet connections just to brute force admin/admin all day. I can't imagine those South Americans being able to access anything without clearing twenty Cloudflare CAPTCHAs (I don't think Cloudflare operates in China), but then again, I think they'll just blame Cloudflare for sabotaging their perfectly safe 100% legit web traffic. This type of blocking wouldn't be necessary if these companies actually did something with the abuse reports they receive, but I guess blocking SSH and telnet is an easy way to stop the flood of reports coming in if you don't care about your customers.