Mr. Nice Try Notes from the edge

Who rents to the scanners

93% of scanning came from rented servers.

Biggest landlord: Google LLC, with 524,286 probes from 860 of its machines. 858 networks sent scanners in all.

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Cloud Landlords: 93% of scanning came from rented servers.

93%

from hosting

858

networks

▼ -2.2% vs the day before

125

countries

▼ -6.0% vs the day before

Top landlords probes
Google LLC 524,286
Microsoft Corporation 10,582
TC DATACENTER LIMITED 5,505
TECHOFF SRV LIMITED 4,191
Cloudflare, Inc. 4,035
↳ Scanners rent. They don't buy.

Every edition: from hosting

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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, AS15169 Yes 524,286 860
Microsoft Corporation AS8075 Yes 10,582 271
TC DATACENTER LIMITED AS218785 — 5,505 10
TECHOFF SRV LIMITED AS48090 — 4,191 13
Cloudflare, Inc. AS13335 Yes 4,035 1,297
TechTies Inc. AS197170 — 3,913 15
Bucklog SARL AS211590 — 3,530 3
Cox Communications Inc. AS22773 — 3,473 92
M247 Europe SRL AS9009 Yes 3,375 69
Oracle Corporation AS31898 Yes 3,114 9
DigitalOcean, LLC AS14061 Yes 2,883 73
Amazon.com, Inc. AS16509, AS14618 Yes 2,399 158
Hydra Communications Ltd AS25369 — 1,647 9
Datacamp Limited AS60068, AS212238 Yes 1,602 93
Omegatech LTD AS202412 — 1,537 13

Where the servers are

The country each probe's IP geolocates to. For clouds, that's the data centre.

Country Probes Share
US 123,356 21%
ES 43,246 7%
IT 42,992 7%
FR 36,608 6%
BE 35,138 6%
CL 29,786 5%
QA 29,703 5%
DE 29,335 5%
JP 24,665 4%
ZA 24,130 4%

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