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Why would there be 240,000 confluence honeypots? Who would be running them? For what purpose?

These aren't just confluence honeypots though. They serve multiple combinations of headers as I described in my other comment[1], so that they can catch the most amount of attackers.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39232102

What do you mean by "catching attackers". What do you gain by having that information? And, again, 240k individual instances all "catching attackers"?

So many questions

That was my thought as well.. Are these infosec hobbyists?

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