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Do they actually care tho?
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This supposed to be white hat hacking/cybersecurity company has actually nice big IP4 ranges so it was easy to identify them. This smells like large scale government funded espionage. Too bad my chickens are doomsday chickens, so no chance for them.
post the names, so other folks can block these IP subnets.
Registries like RIPE and IANA exist to allocate and register uniquely addressable internet resources, nothing more. They are not law enforcement, nor are they courts.
In my view, that’s a good thing. It allows providers to make their own judgments about acceptable use, within the boundaries of their local legal framework. That flexibility is essential in a global industry like ours.
For example, we operate as a Dutch group of companies and are therefore governed by Dutch law. IANA, on the other hand, is a US-based organization. It would be problematic if a registry were to impose US legislation on non-US operators simply because of where the registry is incorporated. Even within a service region, legislation can have its differences. Some things that are totally legal in The Netherlands, are not with our neighbouring countries.
Keeping registries neutral ensures a clear separation between coordination of resources and enforcement of law, which ultimately benefits the stability and fairness of the internet ecosystem.
The sole thing you could and should do, is report this to them and possibly their network provider(s). From your end, you could proactively ban the IPs or the IP ranges in your local firewall(s).
I remember the netiquette was don't be evil. Respect to your neighbors, don't look into private data etc.. i guess governments now have carte blanche, how the world changed since internet came around.
No i wont post this as this can be illegal act in some countries. I am just wondering what is the usual path reporting abusive behaviour on the net. I guess nobody cares.
yeah banning their ranges is a possibility however at some point they will use consumer ip ranges to hide their tracks. So best is to let them running and keep a eye on their behaviour and make honeypots to detect this kind of hacking more quickly.
What is your definition of 'hacking'?
I have lots of connection attempts in my firewalls, that does not necessarily mean they are attempting to hack me. It could be anything from webcrawlers or indexers gathering statistics about webservers or ip usage or whatever statistics people are interested in, or even a misconfigured dns server somewhere pointing at my ip's. A mere connection attempt does not qualify as 'hacking' in my book.
Scanning is not hacking and is rarely illegal.
You can report it to abuseipdb.com, but nobody else is interested in your overreaction and false accusations of hacking.
If they actually are doing something illegal, post proof and name and shame them.
Otherwise, you should return to reality and use your time on real issues.
Welcome to the internet. It's your job to make sure the requests don't come, it's not their job to make sure the requests don't get sent.
I think reporting it to LET is the best thing to do.
But whose job is it to make sure I come?
@emgh or @barbaros depending on availability
I'd say that's false (subjectively). If you start scanning left and right from your server, you will 10000% get a report for this activity and your provider will either tell you to cut the shit or ignore it (not always).
Provider not wanting to deal with complaints doesn't make it illegal.
I'm not convinced you understand what "illegal" means.
This is nothing in compare to llm crawlers.
At least llm crawlers is generated in response of actual humans... Right?
port scanning is.
BLATANT TAXPAYER RIPOFF
Gay sex is also illegal in some countries
okay then
You have right to believe.
So gay sex is hacking?
why does all threads end in gay sex on this site?
Because gay sex is low-end port penetration ... aka hacking.
Welcome to the Internet, getting connected to it is implied consent at this point.
I think @Rubben is the subject matter expert on this, and I think I will wait for his conclusion on this dilemma.
Probing for backdoors en masse can be kinda like gay sex. Or so what I've heard from my uncles friends neighbor
its the rubben effect
Then the obvious follow up question has to be what is your definition of port scanning? How many different ports needs to be tested and in what timeframe? Are we talking about 10 different ports in a minute or like 1000 ports per second?