To check this you need to login as another user without any user list users (contacts) and without sharing any files you don't do searches, you don't enter rooms, you don't chat with anyone using soulseek. He or she forgot to mention that, apparently, you don't need to be sharing any files or send any search requests to be found by others.
Six months ago, someone replied to a post of this subreddit about unauthorized access, by saying that "soulseek is continually connecting to everyone and their mother by sending responses to search queries." The credits of this funny reply go to user gertrude99 Īnd just to mention a few, the hackers have a lot of these at their disposal. The and are always originated from IP addresses actively engaged in abusive activities, as shown in. Network attack detected from 141.98.9.23 to local port 43389 Network packet 21-Sep-20 11:25 (scanning port 43389 status by sending a TCP packet) Network attack detected from 167.86.119.116 to local port 1144 Network packet 20-Sep-20 08:40 (scanning port 1144 status by sending a UDP packet) Network attack detected from 61.68.203.91 to local port 49505 Network packet 21-Sep-20 11:24 (port 49505 : soulseek obfuscated port) Network attack detected from 45.167.152.86 to local port 49504 Network packet 21-Sep-20 11:24 (port 49504 : soulseek listening port) I give you some examples of the attacks that were blocked: Last Tuesday, the 22nd, my network was hit with more than 400 attacks in just one second. and are meant to find an open port and a service running, with a vulnerability that can be exploited, so in the future the attacker can get remote access to the computer. ĭoS. is a DoS attack and its goal is to cause the target operating system to become unstable To be absolutely sure, I even formatted, and re-installed my operating system, kept it running connected to the internet for a few days with nothing else installed and nothing happened, the moment I installed soulseek the attacks began.įor the past months, my network experienced 3 types of attacks:, and.
Second, one of the network attacks chooses always the soulseek listening and obfuscated ports. I first realized that these attacks had always one thing in common: soulseek! They all, without exception, originated while connected to it. At the beginning I was clueless about the origins of such attacks, and how hackers kept finding me, but after 3 months a pattern has been presented. As of late, since perhaps late June, I began to experience network attacks.
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