World of VNC

We had a major thread about something similar a few weeks ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11367666" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11367666</a>. Is this story significantly different?

On this screen one can see the scanners ip: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;INXXlbI" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;INXXlbI</a>

After disabling an adblock have several new tabs with mackeeper site opened =(<p>Turned adblock on again

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldofvnc.net&#x2F;browse.php?id=177" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldofvnc.net&#x2F;browse.php?id=177</a> I just hope it&#x27;s not what it looks like

&gt;&gt; I found 3567 servers that were unprotected.<p>That&#x27;s pretty low for scanning the whole internet. Either VNC isn&#x27;t used that much or I was simply expecting 10 times as many servers.

Geezus he included the hostnames and IPs? This is so insanely irresponsible.

Sooooo many of these look so disturbingly like industrial process control... and this is on the HN front page... I think some people are gonna have a bad day.

I like this one:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldofvnc.net&#x2F;browse.php?id=2677" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldofvnc.net&#x2F;browse.php?id=2677</a><p>It looks like the LCD display of some embedded system, something I would have never expected to see over VNC.

Woa! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitch.tv&#x2F;worldofvnc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitch.tv&#x2F;worldofvnc</a>

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldofvnc.net&#x2F;browse.php?id=2113" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldofvnc.net&#x2F;browse.php?id=2113</a> judging by the tab names, some Russian botnet HQ.

Browsing those are fun. I wonder what that is <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;c796ANj.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;c796ANj.jpg</a>

Here&#x27;s a really funny one:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldofvnc.net&#x2F;browse.php?id=440" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldofvnc.net&#x2F;browse.php?id=440</a><p>I wonder whether anyone connected and upgraded him to Windows 10...

That one is really weird: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldofvnc.net&#x2F;browse.php?id=1107" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldofvnc.net&#x2F;browse.php?id=1107</a><p>I got no clue so far.. but so many questions!

This is terrifying.<p>So many live systems, from CNC lathes through den feeders and boiler controllers to entire city water treatment facilities..

I&#x27;m interested to see that they only found 3567 open servers, whereas a scan I have from a couple years ago shows 7573 entries.<p>Now is it just a difference in scanned ports or a genuine improvement in security, I can&#x27;t tell, but I can only hope.

wind-farm: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldofvnc.net&#x2F;browse.php?id=2116" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldofvnc.net&#x2F;browse.php?id=2116</a>

Now, that&#x27;s an ode to the Internet of (Shitty) Things (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;internetofshit?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;internetofshit?lang=en</a>).

i think it is obligatory to mention that Intel CPUs (which have vPro enabled, ie. Xeons and some others) have VNC server built-in on the chip.