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Checking It Twice: Profiling Benign Internet Scanners — 2024 Edition

A comprehensive analysis of benign internet scanning activity from November 2024, examining how quickly and thoroughly various legitimate scanning services (like Shodan, Censys, and others) discover and probe new internet-facing assets. The study deployed 24 new sensors across 8 geographies and 5 autonomous systems, revealing that most scanners found new nodes within 5 minutes, with ONYPHE leading

Reference details

Source category
Research & news
Report title
Checking It Twice: Profiling Benign Internet Scanners — 2024 Edition
First reported
Dec 23, 2024 00:00 UTC
Last reported
Dec 23, 2024 00:00 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 08, 2026 03:52 UTC
Record ID
cadd2e5ba44d89078340354bf1c4ad5958910173cbe8cf2afc80147df706c20d

Published indicators

Network indicators are visibly defanged. This page does not make them clickable or send them to another service.

No validated file hashes or network indicators are stored for this record.

Source observations

src_0060ae82ad11b5dc16

Source-provided label
Not reported
Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Dec 23, 2024 00:00 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 08, 2026 03:52 UTC

This record contains metadata and attribution only. It does not host, download, unpack, render, or execute malware samples.

Feed collection status

Sources represented on this page. Publication and observation dates describe the content; successful batch dates describe local collection. A recent batch does not certify complete coverage or current provider availability.

1 sources: 0 stale, 0 needing attention, 0 paused, 1 unverified.

Review source update dates and status
  • src_0060ae82ad11b5dc16Collection status unverifiedLast successful batch: Unverified

Stale means older than twice the recorded collection interval, with a minimum of one hour; without an interval, the threshold is 24 hours. Cached content remains available while a feed is stale, paused, or unverified.