On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Charlie Bebber wrote: > > Mike Leone said: > > Meanwhile, that IP belongs to www.picantecorp.com. "A Leader in Email > > Enhancement Products and Services". > > > > Why would they want to SSH scan you? You work for them? Are a customer? > > Collect the same baseball cards as the webmaster? What? > > Yeah, I looked that info up too and I just can't figure out why someone in > College Station, Texas would SSH scan me (especially from their web server > which is to what that IP maps).
It's likely that their machines have been compromised and are unwittingly enlisted in scanning other hosts. It's rare for someone to use their own IP to scan others as this would quickly lead to loss of service from the attacker's ISP.
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