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Knock Knock, Who's There?
A static site with no login pages, no forms, and no commercial value still attracts thousands of unsolicited requests per month. This is what that traffic contains.
Read Part 1A 3-part series on Who's Knocking at the Door.
A static site with no login pages, no forms, and no commercial value still attracts thousands of unsolicited requests per month. This is what that traffic contains.
Read Part 1One CloudFront edge location dominated the probe traffic by a factor of six. Pulling that thread led to Azure Canada Central and a particular kind of internet scavenger.
Read Part 2Scanners arrive with a shopping list: WordPress, admin panels, .env files, and login forms. A static site has none of those. That absence turns the site into a passive honeypot.
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