New record Who rents to the scanners
96% of scanning came from rented servers.
Biggest landlord: Google LLC, with 604,832 probes from 558 of its machines. 748 networks sent scanners in all.
Sunday, Oct 18, 2026 (UTC) · see the latest
96%
from hosting
748
networks
▲ +152% vs the day before
134
countries
▲ +47% vs the day before
Every edition: from hosting
How I measure
Probe requests grouped by the network (autonomous system) their IP address belongs to, from DB-IP's free ASN database. "Hosting networks" are clouds and data centres on my list of hosting providers. Country is where the IP geolocates, which for clouds is the data centre, not the person. IP geolocation by DB-IP (CC BY 4.0).
Every landlord in the top 15
| Network | ASN | Hosting? | Probes | Machines |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google LLC | AS396982 | Yes | 604,832 | 558 |
| Microsoft Corporation | AS8075 | Yes | 41,325 | 45 |
| DigitalOcean, LLC | AS14061 | Yes | 11,992 | 278 |
| Zkillu SAS | AS215599 | — | 6,140 | 14 |
| M247 Europe SRL | AS9009 | Yes | 3,509 | 25 |
| Cloudflare, Inc. | AS13335 | Yes | 3,487 | 1,029 |
| 1337 Services GmbH | AS210558 | — | 3,423 | 6 |
| TECHOFF SRV LIMITED | AS48090 | — | 3,272 | 12 |
| Omegatech LTD | AS202412 | — | 2,841 | 13 |
| TechTies Inc. | AS197170 | — | 2,543 | 16 |
| Hydra Communications Ltd | AS25369 | — | 2,364 | 12 |
| Datacamp Limited | AS60068 | — | 905 | 10 |
| Bucklog SARL | AS211590 | — | 745 | 1 |
| Cox Communications Inc. | AS22773 | — | 638 | 6 |
| 3xK Tech GmbH | AS200373 | — | 596 | 502 |
Where the servers are
The country each probe's IP geolocates to. For clouds, that's the data centre.
| Country | Probes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| BE | 255,677 | 37% |
| US | 58,496 | 8% |
| IT | 32,908 | 5% |
| KR | 31,114 | 5% |
| AU | 30,897 | 4% |
| CL | 27,339 | 4% |
| DE | 26,182 | 4% |
| JP | 25,223 | 4% |
| FR | 22,766 | 3% |
| QA | 19,901 | 3% |
Past editions
A new one every morning.
Follow @MrNiceTry on X for each day's numbers, and the odd story about what the bots get up to.
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