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by drzaiusapelord 3499 days ago
They're just mass scanning for known IoT ports. UPnP opens up the port for everyone. My port number is an example. This blogger found his camera opening up port 80 via UPnP:

https://www.pentestpartners.com/blog/hacking-the-aldi-ip-cct...

Also Brian Krebs examined that Foscam camera and found it enabled a P2P protocol and opened a port on the firewall using UPnP as well:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/02/this-is-why-people-fear-...