I was wondering why we couldn't connect to Discord, and I figured that it must have been due to something going on in the network that we didn't know about. Since modern software are a nightmare to debug, I went to Discord website, tried to login, F12'd it and saw 429 "you are being rate limited by cloudflare" something like that, then I knew something was up.
I first stopped my discord server bot, changed the token, which helped for a few hours, then the ban came back even though I was offline on Discord and put my bot offline.
I was wondering why our home got suddenly discord rate limited for no reason?
So that sparked my curiosity, I thought, I began looking into routers, and found nothing suspcious, no outside devices from neighbours etc.
The spam must have beren coming inside the devices! Since I couldn't scan packets directly from the Router, I had to do some research.
I came across a command called netstat -abf 1, which lets you view connections being established from your PC using the TCP network (UDP is gaming).
I highly recommend it. You will find lots of software that runs on your PC without your explict knowledge. One of them I spotted was Infactica, which is a "residential proxy", basically turning your network into a VPN for other people (mostly big data companies) to route their traffic; incredibly shady, parasitic stuff.
Besides, I also found older software that I do not even use, but were running in the background anyway, I just uninstalled them.
Even if these softwares are probably not stealing your most sensitive data or deleting your stuff, they are essentially botnets without attack purposes, hence they boast about tens of millions of infected proxies.
Those parasites know that big companies now demand payment for using their exclusive APIs due to ban on crawling, so they resort to gray zone 'botnets' to feed the big data.
I highly recommend using your antivirus to remove them and removing any remaining files in %appdata% and other directories. Make sure you get your task manager to turn them off or you can't disable them.
Let's see if this fixes the issue, if not, I will scan my family's devices, or try Wireshark (still have it installed)
I first stopped my discord server bot, changed the token, which helped for a few hours, then the ban came back even though I was offline on Discord and put my bot offline.
I was wondering why our home got suddenly discord rate limited for no reason?
So that sparked my curiosity, I thought, I began looking into routers, and found nothing suspcious, no outside devices from neighbours etc.
The spam must have beren coming inside the devices! Since I couldn't scan packets directly from the Router, I had to do some research.
I came across a command called netstat -abf 1, which lets you view connections being established from your PC using the TCP network (UDP is gaming).
I highly recommend it. You will find lots of software that runs on your PC without your explict knowledge. One of them I spotted was Infactica, which is a "residential proxy", basically turning your network into a VPN for other people (mostly big data companies) to route their traffic; incredibly shady, parasitic stuff.
Besides, I also found older software that I do not even use, but were running in the background anyway, I just uninstalled them.
Even if these softwares are probably not stealing your most sensitive data or deleting your stuff, they are essentially botnets without attack purposes, hence they boast about tens of millions of infected proxies.
Those parasites know that big companies now demand payment for using their exclusive APIs due to ban on crawling, so they resort to gray zone 'botnets' to feed the big data.
I highly recommend using your antivirus to remove them and removing any remaining files in %appdata% and other directories. Make sure you get your task manager to turn them off or you can't disable them.
Let's see if this fixes the issue, if not, I will scan my family's devices, or try Wireshark (still have it installed)
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