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The world’s scariest search engine - Shodan

“When people don’t see stuff on Google, they think no one can find it. That’s not true.”That’s according to John Matherly, creator of Shodan. While Google crawls through web pages, Shodan is a search engine that searches the web for servers, webcams, printers and other such internet connected devices that make up the Internet of Things (IoT). Shodan runs and collects information on around 500 million of such devices every single month.

The Scary side of the ” WWW “

It is surprising what people have found on Shodan – from traffic lights, security cameras, home.....

Read more here - https://www.infoislife.com/the-hacker-search-engine-shodan-is-the-worlds-scariest-search-engine/

Also the place for getting links to all sorts of shady corners with malware that'd blast your device back into AD21 besides coming under unnecessary govt surveillance. Never go in without proper precautions, tunnel all the way behind your firewall and make sure your real IP never shows up because hackers are sure to also be waiting.

Shodan's RTSP search and web crawl protocol patterns will always turn up unguarded victims for mischievous malevolent minds to prey on. Can you imagine your house cams getting remotely monitored and controlled by some sadistic deviant sociopath with incredible hacking skills?

@VickyRotex; ur thoughts here pls?

IdeyFindWife:
Also the place for getting links to all sorts of shady corners with malware that'd blast your device back into AD21 besides coming under unnecessary govt surveillance. Never go in without proper precautions, tunnel all the way behind your firewall and make sure your real IP never shows up because hackers are sure to also be waiting.

Shodan's RTSP search and web crawl protocol patterns will always turn up unguarded victims for mischievous malevolent minds to prey on. Can you imagine your house cams getting remotely monitored and controlled by some sadistic deviant sociopath with incredible hacking skills?

@VickyRotex; ur thoughts here pls?

On Shodan, I believe everything that has it's good side, also got it's bad side.

From inception, one of the reasons Shodan was primarily designed was for Government agencies and Cybersecurity experts to use to monitor various devices (IOT) that are vulnerable to cyber attacks. And in turn secure them.
However, as always. The Unethical guys will always find such to prey on. So as much as youve got your ip and vulnerable, it's pretty easy for them to use your device as a bot. I never pride their hacking skills for once. Trust me some of them dont even know what they do. Research has shown that. (That will be a story for another day)

Remember the DDOS Attack on Krebs On Security last year. It was the biggest of its kind before DYN and OVH attacks. Research was made by security experts, and it was found that those attackers got their vulnerable IOT devices from Shodan.

Trust me when I say the future of Ransomware attacks will be based more on IOT devices. With IOT devices gaining grounds, attackers are gaining more territories.

The below link explains further.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/11/new-mirai-worm-knocks-900k-germans-offline/

That's my best image on Internet of Things Ransomware.