Experiment: Russian scientists lured hackers into traps for two years

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A group of scientists from Samara for two years hacked hackers into special server-traps, found Mail.ru Hi-Tech. This experiment was started in order to collect more information about intruders, create a “invasion model” and identify the most dangerous countries from which most cyber attacks occur.

 

 

The experiment was conducted by scientists from the Samara National Research University. S.P. Queen. In 2017, they launched their “traps” in Samara, Rostov-on-Don, in the Crimea and in the USA. These locations are chosen for ease of deployment.

In fact, traps are normal servers running on GNU Debian / Linux OS. “Apache, Nginx servers were installed as part of the trap server,” explains Andrei Sukhov, a professor at the Information Systems and Technologies Department. “In addition to the web server, a standard database was installed.”

During the two years of the experiment, these servers made hundreds of thousands of attacks.

89.5 thousand attacks fell on the Crimean servers, 470 thousand hacker attacks “fell” into the traps in Samara, 110 thousand strikes hit Rostov-on-Don. The American servers suffered quite seriously: they were attacked 300,000 times.

Most often these were attempts to find a password to the content management system. Moreover, one attempt was usually made from one IP address.

Scientists managed to determine the most dangerous countries by the number of attacks. The most active were Ukraine (in the first place) and the USA (in the second).

 

 

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