Thought it was a video game. Tried shooting back at China.
Shall we play a game?
Nops. The only winning move is not to play.
Norse Attack Map
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#32This map has much better pew pew sounds:
http://threatbutt.com/map/
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#33Not sure how they are getting their attack data. Especially since they are classifying shodan as an "attacker"
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#34interesting that attacks come directly from China instead of say some botnets distributed around the world.
China probably has the most compromised PCs due to the levels of piracy there.
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#35I've seen maps like this discussed[0] on /r/netsec/ and other similar forums and from my understanding, they are mostly useless. It's aggregates some data to make a very pretty site, but doesn't really give you anything actionable. Normally you need to run it through real monitoring tools with various thresholds configured so you can alert the proper teams to act when something odd is going on. [0] http://www.reddit.…
The Norse Map used to have a little "about" section that explained how the map is a general aggregation of data and designed to show at a very high level what is going on, but doesn't provide any deep insight into each attack. The famous disclaimer "for entertainment purposes only" comes to mind, but in reality I think the Norse Map is just a really neat and sort-of functional advertisement for the capabilities of No…
Norse is generally considered a joke by all the professionals I know in the infosec and threat intelligence industries, and not just for their silly map. Even moreso after their recent Iran report, done in conjunction with the political thinktank American Enterprise Institute. No bias there at all.
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#36With a title like that, I was at first expecting to see a map of coastal attacks against northern Europe.
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#38I expected Russia to be active.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honeypots
That would, in my view, mean I shouldn't take the map as accurate.
What does "accurate" mean? It's not comprehensive - what it does is show you where their honeypots get the most attacks from over time.
That said, it's not all that useful - there's no shocking information here. As mentioned, it's largely a marketing tool.