{"id":226115,"date":"2025-11-29T04:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T10:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/greynoise-launches-free-scanner-to-check-if-youre-part-of-a-botnet"},"modified":"2025-11-29T04:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T10:18:14","slug":"greynoise-launches-free-scanner-to-check-if-youre-part-of-a-botnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/greynoise-launches-free-scanner-to-check-if-youre-part-of-a-botnet","title":{"rendered":"GreyNoise launches free scanner to check if you\u2019re part of a botnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/greynoise-launches-free-scanner-to-check-if-youre-part-of-a-botnet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GreyNoise Labs has launched a free tool called GreyNoise IP Check that lets users check if their IP address has been observed in malicious scanning operations, like botnet and residential proxy networks.<\/p>\n<p>The threat monitoring firm that tracks internet-wide activity via a global sensor network says this problem has grown significantly over the past year, with many users unknowingly helping malicious online activity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past year, residential proxy networks have exploded and have been turning home internet connections into exit points for other people\u2019s traffic,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greynoise.io\/blog\/your-ip-address-might-be-someone-elses-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">explains GreyNoise<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GreyNoise Labs has launched a free tool called GreyNoise IP Check that lets users check if their IP address has been observed in malicious scanning operations, like botnet and residential proxy networks. The threat monitoring firm that tracks internet-wide activity via a global sensor network says this problem has grown significantly over the past year, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}