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by ies7 777 days ago
> Interesting! We can see the most locations in India, Indonesia, and China as well as a significant number in the US and Europe.

Are these because the bad guys are in there or just because of the population size?

China, India, US, and Indonesia are the top four of the most populous country and also 4 countries with most internet users.

Even the size of 10% of Indonesian internet users are almost the entire Taiwan population.

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I doubt most of these scans come from the attackers network. This is probably just a map of where the poorly secured CCTV cameras and IoT washing machines are.
I was surpriswed at the sharp concentration of addresses in the Netherlands. It looks as if it's a matter of national boundaries - thee's no concentration in Germany or Belgium.

That could be a couple of "relaxed" ISPs, I suppose. I doubt it's a question of different national legislation.

> Are these because the bad guys are in there or just because of the population size?

Yes