Re: China, their cloud services seem to stretch to Singapore and beyond. I had to blacklist all of Alibaba Cloud and Tencent and the ASNs stretched well beyond PRC borders.
So the seychelles traffic is likely really disguised chinese traffic.
[1] https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/350973-man-connected...
The explanation is that easy??
Soon: chineseplayer.io
Then they're making the claim that those binaries have botnet functionality.
And you are right, kernel anti-cheat are rumored to be weaponized by hackers, and making the previous even worse.
And when the kid is playing his/her game at home, if daddy or mummy is a person of interest, they are already on the home LAN...
Well, you get the picture: nowhere to run, orders of magnitude worse than it was before.
Nowadays, the only level of protection the administrator/root access rights give you, is to mitigate any user mistake which would break his/her system... sad...
It wouldn't surprise me if this is related somehow. Like maybe these are Indian corporations using a Seychelles offshore entity to do their scanning because then they can offset the costs against their tax or something. It may be that Cyprus has similar reasons. Istr that Cyprus was revealed to be important in providing a storefront to Russia and Putin-related companies and oligarchs.[2]
So Seychelles may be India-related bots and Cyprus Russia-related bots.
[1] https://taxjustice.net/faq/what-is-transfer-pricing/#:~:text...
[2] Yup. My memory originated in the "Panama Papers" leaks https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/cypr...
it wont be all chinese companies or ppl doing the scraping. its well known that a lot of countries dont mind such traffic as long as it doesnt target themselves or for the west also some allies.
laws arent the same everywhere and so companies can get away with behavior in one place which seem almost criminal in another.
and what better place to put your scrapers than somewhere where there is no copyright.
russia also had same but since 2012 or so they changed laws and a lot of traffic reduced. companies moved to small islands or small nation states (favoring them with their tax payouts, they dont mind if j bring money for them) or few remaining places like china who dont care for copyrights.
its pretty hard to get really rid of such traffic. you can block stuff but mostly it will just change the response your server gives. flood still knockin at the door.
id hope someday maybe ISPs or so get more creative but maybe they dont have enough access and its hard to do this stuff without the right access into the traffic (creepy kind) or running into accidentally censoring the whole thing.