I got a *bunch* (harassment-level) of telephone calls from my ISP similar to this. They refused to do anything by email, and wouldn't tell me anything more about the supposed port-scanning attacks. They just kept asking me to "make sure Windows and my router firmware were up to date." (No Windows, no router.) They kept saying that I was port-scanning a machine in the 10.x address space. When I finally got someone who knew enough to know that wasn't a routable address, they *still* couldn't tell me anything about the nature of the complaint. I finally had to threaten legal action, at which point they *still* refused to disclose anything about the complaint, but at least stopped calling me. The *hours* on the phone revealed only two things: the complaint was originating from somewhere in the Chicago (US) area, and the "port" I was "scanning" was always 9002.
My relay was also a non-exit. Needless to say, I was monitoring my network traffic and there was no "port scanning" going on. My best guess is that some kindergartener in a sysadmin suit (or incompetent security suite vendor, if that's not redundant) configured a firewall to automatically report accesses via port 9002 as port scanning and they have a relay behind said firewall.
As much as I would have welcomed the opportunity to educate and assist the operator of this misconfigured security system, my ISP would never divulge any contact information.
Just a data point.
--Ron
On May 3, 2020, at 14:15, gerard@bulger.co.uk gerard@bulger.co.uk wrote:
That is really unhelpful of them to state Type of Attack/Scan: Generic Hosts: 10.10.10.182 which is non-routable address. Something on their LAN is wrong. You cannot even respond by blocking their actual WAN IP in torrc.
Ask for the real WAN IP of their network so you can block the attack
-----Original Message----- From: tor-relays tor-relays-bounces@lists.torproject.org On Behalf Of lists@for-privacy.net Sent: 03 May 2020 21:16 To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: [tor-relays] Again: abuse email for non-exit relay (masergy)
Hi,
got multiple abuse in the last 2 weeks.
2 relays with 2 IP run on the server. Someone is always hammering my OR port on one IP. (37.157.255.118:9002) https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/BD2A34ADE4E603A272FAAD23AEF38... https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/8EE44717FA55705C12086F3ECD1F8...
What can I do?
Found that in the archive: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2017-September/013030.html
the 5th complaint: ##############################################################################################################
To Whom it May Concern,
You have a system on your network that is actively scanning and/or attacking external sites on the Internet. This can come from many sources and because it is often difficult to detect this activity, we are sending this E-mail in an attempt to help you solve the problem.
We have detected your system with an IP of, 37.157.255.118, scanning a client we monitor. This was not a short attack but a prolonged scan and/or probe that was designed to find and intrude into the target network.
This may be someone on your network who is actively trying to hack others. This person may be a legitimate user on your network or it may be that this system has been compromised and is being used by someone to hack others. It is also likely that the system is running automated tools that have been installed to perform these actions without any human intervention.
Below is the information about the attack. Keep in mind that the source IP of our client has been sanitized for anonymity.
Date: 04/30/2020 Time: 11:05:37 Time Zone: America/Chicago Source(s): 37.157.255.118 Type of Attack/Scan: Generic Hosts: 10.10.10.182 Log:
37.157.255.118:9002 > 10.10.10.182:24562
Possible Cause:
Thank you for your attention to this matter,
Masergy email: esp@masergy.com
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