Who rents to the scanners
89% of scanning came from rented servers.
Biggest landlord: Google LLC, with 21,779 probes from 21 of its machines. 34 networks sent scanners in all.
Thursday, Oct 8, 2026 (UTC)
89%
from hosting
34
networks
▲ +278% vs the day before
22
countries
▲ +144% 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, AS15169 | Yes | 21,779 | 21 |
| Microsoft Corporation | AS8075 | Yes | 2,102 | 16 |
| 3xK Tech GmbH | AS200373 | — | 884 | 807 |
| Aeza Group LLC | AS216246 | — | 661 | 2 |
| TECHOFF SRV LIMITED | AS48090 | — | 404 | 10 |
| UAB Cherry Servers | AS204770 | — | 261 | 1 |
| TC DATACENTER LIMITED | AS218785 | — | 184 | 10 |
| Eweka Internet Services B.V. | AS34343 | — | 112 | 3 |
| Storm Industries LLC | AS219502 | — | 84 | 10 |
| M247 Europe SRL | AS9009 | Yes | 63 | 4 |
| TechTies Inc. | AS197170 | — | 60 | 2 |
| Hydra Communications Ltd | AS25369 | — | 36 | 3 |
| 1337 Services GmbH | AS210558 | — | 36 | 1 |
| SoloRDP | AS150303 | — | 32 | 1 |
| Datacamp Limited | AS60068 | — | 27 | 3 |
Where the servers are
The country each probe's IP geolocates to. For clouds, that's the data centre.
| Country | Probes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| BE | 14,432 | 54% |
| TW | 5,233 | 20% |
| US | 2,917 | 11% |
| HK | 838 | 3% |
| RU | 662 | 3% |
| IN | 471 | 2% |
| AU | 468 | 2% |
| AD | 406 | 2% |
| KR | 335 | 1% |
| JP | 317 | 1% |
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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