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achillean

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About achillean

I run a small search engine that finds the stuff that's not on Google.

Contact me at jmath (at) shodan (dot) io

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49142035

    The numbers are a bit lower if you exclude honeypots (~2k hosts): https://www.shodan.io/search/report?query=rockwell+port%3A44... And the problem has actually gotten better over th…

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    Comment #48523448

    We are writing https://terminal.shodan.io using iced and the development aspect has been great. Biggest issues are around distributing on Windows.

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    Comment #46977540

    There will be some honeypots in this data but this is a start: https://www.shodan.io/search/report?query=product%3Atelnetd+...

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    Comment #46977503

    FYI: it might be better to search by port:23 https://www.shodan.io/search?query=port%3A23 Or to filter by product:telnetd https://www.shodan.io/search?query=product%3Atelnetd A que…

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    Comment #46970908

    Port 23 has decreased significantly over the past decade: https://i.imgur.com/tZoTWu6.png Still seeing a sizable number of open ports but it's on the decline.

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    Comment #46789136

    FYI we released a tool to calculate a bunch of these types of hashes: https://book.shodan.io/command-line-tools/shodan-hash/ More info about the favicon hashing technique: https://…

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    Comment #46785624

    Already seeing some of the new Moltbot deployments exposed to the Internet: https://www.shodan.io/search/report?query=http.favicon.hash%...

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    Comment #46760250

    I had a similar experience where a competitor released an academic paper rife with mistakes and misunderstandings of how my software worked. Instead of reaching out and trying to u…

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    Comment #46482938

    Honeypots are advertising that header as well nowadays: https://www.shodan.io/search/report?query=x-clacks-overhead Most of the non-honeypot results are for the Gargoyle Router Man…

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    Comment #46378791

    Maybe it depends on the type of business/ customers that you have because I've had the opposite experience. For us as a security SaaS, B2B enterprise is incredibly stable and predi…

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    Comment #46363900

    Searching for ALPR was also one of the popular early queries: https://github.com/jakejarvis/awesome-shodan-queries?tab=rea... The old PIPS ALPR devices aren't online anymore but th…

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    Comment #45117420

    Shodan also has built-in detection for some of them. For example, you can search for "product:ollama" ( https://www.shodan.io/search?query=product%3Aollama ). Or if you have access…

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    Comment #44477303

    Around 40,000 services on the Internet are currently including the header: https://www.shodan.io/search/report?query=x-clacks-overhead+... For some reason, a lot of honeypots are a…

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    Comment #44285951

    There are still more than 300,000 services on the Internet that support SSLv2: https://www.shodan.io/search/report?query=ssl.version%3Asslv... And a trend line of how it's changed:…

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    Comment #43876519

    In absolute numbers probably not highly representative but the relative numbers are meaningful to measure adoption. And no, it requires the user to disable authentication in order …

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    Comment #43862932

    Based on Internet-accessible services the number of Valkey servers is low (~120): https://trends.shodan.io/search?query=valkey_version+port%3A... Here's a chart of all Redis-compat…

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    Comment #42874751

    It's not anymore! They actually changed their defaults and it helped tremendously to reduce the exposure of Redis instances on the Internet.

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    Comment #42814178

    We released a tool to calculate the favicon hash called "favscan": https://blog.shodan.io/deep-dive-http-favicon/ And here's a map of favicons that Shodan has seen across the Inter…

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    Comment #40851906

    We developed "geodns" for situations where you want to do DNS lookups from different regions around the world. For example, ycombinator.com returns different IPs depending on your …

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    Comment #40765590

    Looks like there are at least a few hundred instances of OpenEMR exposed to the Internet: https://www.shodan.io/search/report?query=http.favicon.hash%...

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    Comment #40693955

    A few others: - Want to distribute data to users that don't want to manage a server? A lot of people don't want to manage a server and don't need the best possible performance. - W…

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    Comment #39233196

    Note that all of them have been flagged as honeypots by Shodan (see the "Tags" section below the IP in the top left).

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    Comment #38756240

    Among the non-standard ports for SSH, 443 is in the top ports used: https://www.shodan.io/search/facet?query=ssh&facet=port https://www.shodan.io/search/facet.png?query=ssh&facet=p…

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    Comment #38410103

    We do it for https://internetdb.shodan.io

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    Comment #38146766

    Looks like there are still quite a few? https://www.shodan.io/search/report?query=product%3A%22Outlo...