With A Bonus Rate Limit Free JSON API To Automate Checks
GreyNoise has provided us all something to be thankful for, a quick and easy way to check if your IP address is propagating botnet traffic. It won’t tell you which device on your network is the guilty party not give you much in the way of details on which botnet you are helping out but it is simple and easy to use.
Get anyone you know to click on this link from one of their home computers.
They will get a quick pass/fail result that anyone can successfully interpret. If it happens to come back with the unfortunate news that they are contributing to a botnet, then it’s time to do some work. The traffic could be coming from anything connected to your network, from the computer you tested on to that fancy internet connected air fryer you recently picked up. To help you track down the naughty device GreyNoise will provide you with a 90 day historical timeline to show when the malevolent traffic first started up.
To sweeten the deal even more GreyNoise will accept traffic from scripts so you can use a curl query to automatically check with the scanner to check your network on a regular occasion.
