The Internet is a cesspool of villainy hidden below a layer of denial that would shock most people if they were aware of it. ISPs stick their fingers in their ears and go NaNaNaNa to avoid admitting it, but every person on the Internet is probed numerous times each and every day, and not in an alien friendly sort of way.
I specifically configure my home network to be able to capture this data, store it in a database and then display it graphically for anyone to see. I’ve been doing this continuously since 2009, and other than a recent week where my ISP took a direct lightning strike and blew up, the pattern of intrusions for these past 13+ years has remained exactly the same.
Most people who have high-speed Internet connections that they leave on all day and night will likely have the EXACT same traffic spamming their connection, and not even know it. ISPs could easily analyze, detect and block this, but alas someone would likely hold up a sign protesting the imposition on their rights and force the ISP to let all the bad shit continue unabated.
Personally, if the ISP gave me the choice I’d choose to ban it. Block the repeated password guesses, block the attempts to connect to my hard drives, block the probes looking for vulnerabilities in an Internet of Things thermostat or the Alexa device, block it all!
Here is the regularly updated display of the attempts to access my network, whether because they try non-existent services looking for a weakness, or they return after trying something dumb such as emailing spam, or they come from a country that I just threw my hands up and said screw them after so many incursion attempts, they all get blocked. For them it is like being a fly that smashes into a car windshield. They don’t get through.
direct link to page: https://intruders.darrenpopham.com