8 Jul
2025
8 Jul
'25
2:03 a.m.
On Mon, Jul 7, 2025, at 9:50 PM, Brandon Martin via NANOG wrote:
A perhaps interesting question would be how the entities involved in this crawling activity have come to control so much IP space. It doesn't seem like a use-case that readily justifies it.
There were too many addresses to research all of them, but taking several dozen and looking at whois, I found they belonged to all sorts of different kinds of organization, in many different countries on multiple continents. IMO the reasonable conclusion is they're hiring botnets. Dan