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Re: Loads of fake peers advertised on bitcoin network
by
piotr_n
on 15/07/2021, 19:55:39 UTC
⭐ Merited by Coding Enthusiast (3) ,ETFbitcoin (3) ,Pmalek (2)
What I've learned about this, there are bots out there that feed this attack.
Here are some of their IPs:
Code:
195.206.105.93
68.232.180.194
31.13.191.132
217.138.197.76
172.104.10.187
152.89.163.172
95.174.66.28
But you can't connect to them - you have to wait for them to connect to you.

Such a fake node seem to be connecting to (all?) the known bitcoin nodes - somehow randomly.
Upon connecting, it does the versions handshake pretending to be bitcoin core (I've seen /Satoshi:0.21.0/ and /Satoshi:0.21.1/)
Then, without any wait, it start sending addr messages, each containing 10 records.
After sending 500 of such messages (so 5000 addresses total), it just disconnects, after literally a few seconds from connecting.
Later it will come back, minutes or hours later, to do the same...