Daily field notes

Today in the reserve

The reserve logged 21,051 events today: 631 HTTP sightings, 7,806 SSH sessions, 7,603 credential attempts, and 5,011 shell commands.

5,221 Shell Ferret sightings slipped into the pretend shell tunnels.

2,318 Credential Badger sightings tested the locks with borrowed names.

534 Bear sightings left heavy tracks across several parts of the reserve.

250 Curious Monkey sightings prodded unfamiliar branches in the canopy.

87 Botnet Boar sightings rooted around for installer trails.

The busiest trail was /, visited 87 times. The dominant gait was GET, seen 580 times.

Geography for this period: US: 166, BG: 155, GB: 94, NL: 84.

At the SSH watering hole, root was the favourite username (2,367 attempts), while 123456 led the password parade (336 attempts).

The most repeated shell incantation was uname -s -v -n -r -m, heard 2,423 times from the burrows.

4 Malware Magpie attempts involved wget, curl, or tftp.

248 apex predators crossed the observation threshold.