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Do any of you bother writing abuse emails? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I was logged into my Cloudflare account today attempting to setup Tunnels when I noticed various security events related to my domain. Upon further inspection I realized that they all originated from a Microsoft Owned IP address (I'm assuming somebody running a Azure VM instance).

Looking into the actual request headers I can see that whatever bot was running was looking for common PHP exploits or unsecured endpoints.

I usually ignore such instances as I have proper firewall rules both on the Cloudflare side as well as my local network side so I'm doubting there's actually any threat to my network. However, I decided today to email the abuse contact provided from the WHOIS details. Was wondering if anybody else had experience with writing these? Is it even worth writing them or do they just end up being a waste of time?

Edit: Thanks everybody for the responses! Seems that it's up in the air if I'll ever get a response back. Maybe that's okay - Looks like the general consensus is that these usually do end up getting taken seriously (at least by some providers). I guess I'll keep composing away even if it's just an exercise in good internet stewardship :)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wondered the same thing at the time it had to have been ungodly expensive unless it was a stolen device. I can't remember for sure if it was intelsat or one of the other companies that was around at the time but it was a sat connection. I was also running that webserver on a really bad dsl line. I lived right next door to the phone company CO but was at the end of the line. I had to go with an independent isp because the phone company said it was too far and wouldn't work. It did work but was super unreliable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Very likely a stolen device. Or a mining camp with shared access.

I can feel the heart attack they had when opening their phone bill next month....

Holy shit!