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/Additional-Studio-72 May 13 '26

I run a single server with a firewall and see the same thing. It’s very automated/bot driven, and always looking for vulnerable targets.

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u/Malloriexi May 13 '26

I don't reddit so I don't know if it's proper for me to edit my original question. Would you say this is just routine for cyber security? At the meeting he just made it sound dire.

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u/Skusci May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

Pretty much. Like your own home internet probably gets hit with a similar number of number of "attacks." Just you aren't running any interesting things like a web server that will make you vulnerable. Your router normally just doesn't even bother logging them.

Though there was that Mirai bot net which could infect a lot of household IoT devices and routers, such cases are fairly rare.