[Honeypot Alert] Status Report for February 2012
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Monthly Web Honeypot Status Report
We have received a tremendous amount of positive feedback on our web-based honeypot alert blog posts. While we agree that this data is useful for raising awareness of individual attack details, we feel that what was missing was information on scale. Specifically, how many of each type of attacks are we seeing. The goal of these new monthly blog posts will be to provide some context on the web attack trends we are seeing in hopes that this will aid organization with determining attack likelihood.
Reporting Period: February 2012
Number of Web Sensors: 18956
Total Number of Attacks Seen for February 2012: 500198
Attack Types per Month
The overall number of attacks seen increased slightly from January to February 2012 (.07%).
Attack Trends
PHP Code Injection
PHP Code Injection made the biggest increase in February, up 17849% vs. January.
OS Commanding Attacks Increase
OS Commanding attacks increased by 795% in February vs. January 2012.
Timthumb Injection Attacks
Timthumb injection attacks were up 74% in February vs. January 2012.
Attacker Source Trends
Total Number of Unique Attack Sources: 11174
The attacker source information captured by our web honeypots is the primary data feed for the SpiderLabs Commercial ModSecurity Rules.
Top 10 Attacker Sources
GeoIP Lookup of Top 10 Attacker Sources
| Hostname | Country Code | Country Name |
|---|---|---|
| 184.154.138.162 | US | United States |
| 92.43.98.115 | AT | Austria |
| 184.107.244.66 | CA | Canada |
| 182.255.0.35 | ID | Indonesia |
| 130.231.61.28 | FI | Finland |
| 186.202.59.124 | BR | Brazil |
| 92.46.62.134 | KZ | Kazakhstan |
| 81.92.219.101 | PT | Portugal |
| 110.173.51.18 | HK | Hong Kong |
| 208.115.216.122 | US | United States |