Watching the Internet breathe
April 26, 2013 8:19 AM   Subscribe

This beautiful animated image was generated by the author of the Carna Botnet, a massive distributed port scanner running unauthorized on about 420,000 poorly secured "routers ... set-top boxes ... industrial control systems, physical door security systems, big Cisco/Juniper equipment and so on" and capable of interrogating the entire IPv4 address space overnight.

Here's a higher-resolution version (1100x618, 9MB) of that animation.

All 568GB of the data gathered by the botnet has been released into the public domain, along with some useful tools for further study.
posted by flabdablet (7 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Yep, looks like recently, feel free to toss this into that thread since it's still open. -- cortex



 
But, what does it mean?
posted by kinnakeet at 8:25 AM on April 26, 2013


Fascinating. The animated gif displays overall utilization of devices over time, so it should roughly mimic day/night transitions in the real world. This is some real Neuromancer-type shit here. Thanks for the excellent FPP.
posted by anewnadir at 8:27 AM on April 26, 2013


But, what does it mean?

It's a heat map showing Internet device availability by geolocated IP address and time of day, with a shaded overlay to show where day and night are.
posted by flabdablet at 8:29 AM on April 26, 2013


But, what does it mean?

Patching is useless because nobody does it.
posted by eriko at 8:35 AM on April 26, 2013 [2 favorites]


This does need a previously. Not quite a double.
posted by k5.user at 8:39 AM on April 26, 2013


Not quite a double.

If it walks like a double and quacks like a double... ok, flagged. I did search before posting, honestly.
posted by flabdablet at 8:42 AM on April 26, 2013


I want to zoom in on the dots. Badly.
posted by aramaic at 8:43 AM on April 26, 2013


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