Let's assume that I submitted an abuse report on your behalf. I'm not going to do it on behalf of my company; I'm not seeing this issue. So I'd have to do it in a personal capacity. Who do I report it to? Let's say my ISP is Charter, and my cell provider is AT&T. Reporting to either one would not provide you any benefit, since you are seeing the suspect traffic to you via Verizon. Let's assume I file the reports anyways. What do I say? I haven't seen the traffic in question, so I have no idea what it is. I can't provide any specifics in my abuse report that would be helpful. I'm certainly not going to just copypasta some information from abusedbip; I can't speak to the accuracy of anything there. Finally, I'm just another guy on the list, nobody special. I certainly don't feel that there was any bullying involved on my part or others, but I won't comment further; the intensity of your reaction would lead me to believe it would be unproductive. Best of luck in addressing your issues. On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 8:17 PM JoeSox <joesox@gmail.com> wrote:
Ryan, Thanks but like I said these devices are in moving vehicles ok? I stated we have a plan but it is ways out. FACT: we have a known malicious C&C FACT: We know what networks it is hitting and the cellular network is the most vulnerable, imo. FACT: this IP is against Verizon terms of service so the way to address it is to report it to them as they request.
I honestly got what I needed from this thread, thanks. And I thank the nonbullies that helped me off list. -- Thank You, Joe
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 5:11 PM Ryan Hamel <administrator@rkhtech.org> wrote:
Joe,
It isn’t on Verizon to setup a firewall, especially if you have a direct public IP service. The device being attached directly to the Internet (no matter the transmission medium), must be able to protect itself. ISPs provide routers which function as a NAT/Firewall appliance, to provide a means of safety and convenience for them, but also charge you a rental fee.
Stick a Cradlepoint router or something in front of your device, if you want an external means of protection. Otherwise you’ll need to enable the Windows Firewall if it’s a Windows system, or setup iptables on Linux, ipfw/pf on *BSD, etc.
Ryan
*From:* JoeSox <joesox@gmail.com> *Sent:* Thursday, February 4, 2021 5:04 PM *To:* ryan@rkhtech.org *Cc:* TJ Trout <tj@pcguys.us>; NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> *Subject:* Re: Suspicious IP reporting
How do I setup a firewall when I am not a Verizon engineer?
There is a firewall via the antivirus and operating system but that's it.
Do you not understand my issue? I thought that is the real problem with the online bullies in this thread.
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Thank You,
Joe
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 5:01 PM Ryan Hamel <administrator@rkhtech.org> wrote:
Joe,
The underlying premise here is, “pick your battles”. If you don’t want an IP address to access your device in anyway, setup a firewall and properly configure it to accept whitelisted traffic only, or just expose a VPN endpoint. The Internet is full of both good and bad actors that probe and scan anything and everything.
While some appreciate the notification here, others will find it annoying. We cannot report anything malicious about an IP address on the Internet, unless it does harm to us specifically, otherwise it is false reporting and does create more noise at the ISP, and waste more time getting to the underlying issue.
Ryan
*From:* NANOG <nanog-bounces+ryan=rkhtech.org@nanog.org> *On Behalf Of * JoeSox *Sent:* Thursday, February 4, 2021 4:41 PM *To:* TJ Trout <tj@pcguys.us> *Cc:* NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> *Subject:* Re: Suspicious IP reporting
Do others see this online bully started by Tom? The leader has spoken so the minions follow :)
This list sometimes LOL
I think if everyone gets off their high horse, the list communication would be less noisy for the list veterans.
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Thank You,
Joe
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 4:36 PM TJ Trout <tj@pcguys.us> wrote:
This seems like a highly suspect request coming from a North American network operator...?
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 10:23 AM JoeSox <joesox@gmail.com> wrote:
This IP is hitting devices on cellular networks for the past day or so.
https://www.abuseipdb.com/whois/79.124.62.86
I think this is the info to report it to the ISP. Any help or if everyone can report it, I would be a happy camper.
abuse@4cloud.mobi; abuse@fiberinternet.bg
https://en.asytech.cn/check-ip/79.124.62.25#gsc.tab=0
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Thank You,
Joe