Remote Admin Attacks even after changing public IP address
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05-05-2021 3:33 PM
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Been suffering a number of DSL drop outs recently so been in and out of the router logs. Last night I started being attacked with the logs full of :-
IN: BLOCK [16] Remote administration (TCP [64.246.161.26]:41744->[xxx.xxx.x.xxx]:80 on ppp3)
Occurring every min of so for the last 16 hours.
I thought I'd be clever and try to change my public IP address by disconnected the router from PPPoE, waiting 20 min and then reconnecting so I'd hopefully get a new public IP address which I did. I though this would throw off the hackers but no. One minute later even with a completely new IP address the attacks continued.
I know the firewall should be protecting me but I was surprised the IP change didn't buy me some time.
Anyone have an insight ?
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Re: Remote Admin Attacks even after changing public IP address
06-05-2021 5:34 PM
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Interestingly, although there are loads of source IP addresses scanning me, when I look them up I find they are mostly associated with so called securing companies.
https://support.censys.io/hc/en-us/articles/360059603231-Censys-Internet-Scanning-Intro
nameintel.com
Maybe someone is blast the whole plusnet subnet I'm on.
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06-05-2021 6:05 PM
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Thread moved from ADSL Broadband to My Router.
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06-05-2021 10:12 PM
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Censys claim to scan every public IPv4 address (hundreds of millions) every 16 hours on average. There are a lot of similar security companies doing the same thing, so you will see a lot of such "attacks" even without any bad actors.
Your router will block these - even any malicious ones - so I wouldn't worry about them.
08-05-2021 12:54 PM
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In case this helps anyone else ....
I didn't realise but Plusnet have a broadband firewall (in the network) as well as the one in your router.
https://www.plus.net/help/broadband/about-plusnets-broadband-firewall/
I guess this is OFF by default. I enabled mine and after a while the Remote Admin attempts has dropped to zero but it a few reboots of my DSL router to kick in.
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