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Reconnaissance & Internet-Wide Abuse

Scanning at Internet scale.

A VM scans at internet scale, touching huge numbers of addresses. Even when nothing is attacked, it generates a flood of abuse reports. Frabs counts the destinations each VM reaches over longer windows.

Detectors (9)

Detector	Measures	Warning	Incident	Critical
Internet-Wide Host Scanning	Distinct destination addresses (addresses)	1,000 in 10 min	5,000 in 30 min	10,000 in 1 h
Internet-Wide Scanning	Distinct destination addresses (addresses)	1,000 in 10 min	5,000 in 30 min	10,000 in 1 h
Mass Port Scanning	Distinct destination ports (ports)	1,000 in 10 min	5,000 in 30 min	10,000 in 1 h
Mass Host Scanning	Distinct destination addresses (addresses)	1,000 in 10 min	5,000 in 30 min	10,000 in 1 h
Mass Service Discovery	Distinct targets on the service's ports (targets)	1,000 in 10 min	5,000 in 30 min	10,000 in 1 h
Mass Banner Grabbing	Distinct targets on the service's ports (targets)	1,000 in 10 min	5,000 in 30 min	10,000 in 1 h
Internet-Wide Vulnerability Scanning	Distinct targets on the service's ports (targets)	1,000 in 10 min	5,000 in 30 min	10,000 in 1 h
Continuous Reconnaissance	Distinct destination addresses (addresses)	5,000 in 6 h	20,000 in 12 h	50,000 in 24 h
Randomised Internet Scanning	Distinct destination addresses (addresses)	1,000 in 10 min	5,000 in 30 min	10,000 in 1 h

Change the thresholds

Use Custom Protection to change any of these, or set them for one VM. See Detectors and Thresholds.

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