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Why would there be 240,000 confluence honeypots? Who would be running them? For what purpose?
by ribosometronome 3y ago
Why would there be 240,000 confluence honeypots? Who would be running them? For what purpose?
- sbarre 3y agoThat was my thought as well.. Are these infosec hobbyists?
- supriyo-biswas 3y agoThese aren't just confluence honeypots though. They serve multiple combinations of headers as I described in my other comment[1], so that they can catch the most amount of attackers. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39232102 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39232102
- sprremix 3y agoWhat do you mean by "catching attackers". What do you gain by having that information? And, again, 240k individual instances all "catching attackers"? So many questions