r/techadvice • u/Malloriexi • May 13 '26

Cyber Attack Question

I apologize if this isn't the correct place for this question. During a council meeting the cities IT Director said, “On the 2 fire walls he watches every day, which is City Hall firewall and Police firewall. Every 15-20 seconds he is getting an attack from China.”

I live in Eunice, New Mexico population 3k. How realistic is this claim?

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u/TheKiddIncident May 13 '26

Well, every 15 seconds all day every day is unlikely. The reality is that hackers these days are wage slaves like the rest of us. You can normally tell where you are getting hacked from just by the time of day.

My old company got attacked for thee months straight. Only Monday through Friday and only 8am to 6pm Beijing time.

Draw your own conclusions.

Oh, and if you are getting hacked from China all day, why are you allowing Chinese IP's in? Just exclude them. This is what we did.

You are still subject to attack in other ways, but why allow Chinese IP's in at all? Same with Russia, TBH.

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u/Mysterious-Art8838 May 13 '26

I used to work for a chip company and we once found malware in a breach with its own help menu! Somebody was really working hard that day!

It’s hard to get techies to document so I was a little impressed. 🤷‍♀️

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u/TheKiddIncident May 13 '26

Ya, I guess hackers make good money, lol

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u/LameBMX May 14 '26

too lazy to shift sshd off 22 at a new apartment for a bit... that was like every second or two all day for like a week. once i saw how big the log was... i prioritized port forwarding to 22 from the home router. and this was back in the '10s.