{"id":9971,"date":"2026-01-19T04:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/32618\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T04:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:03:43","slug":"32618","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/32618\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How many states are there in the United States?&#8221;, (Sun, Jan 18th)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>&#8220;How many states are there in the United States?&#8221;, (Sun, Jan 18th)<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen many API requests for different LLMs in the honeypot logs.<\/p>\n<p>Like this one:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/isc.sans.edu\/diaryimages\/images\/20260111-121247.png?ssl=1\" style=\"width: 725px; height: 193px;\"><\/p>\n<p>The prompt is always the same:\u00a0&#8220;How many states are there in the United States?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This is recon to find open LLMs. Not necessarily to exploit them, but to use them.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, something similar has been reported in the news: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/hackers-target-misconfigured-proxies-to-access-paid-llm-services\/\">Hackers target misconfigured proxies to access paid LLM services<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Make sure your LLMs are not exposed to the Internet without authentication.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Didier Stevens<br \/>\nSenior handler<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.didierstevens.com\/\">blog.DidierStevens.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p> (c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https:\/\/isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/isc.sans.edu\/diary\/rss\/32618\">Go to isc.sans.edu<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How many states are there in the United States?&#8221;, (Sun, Jan 18th) I&#8217;ve seen many API requests for different LLMs in the honeypot logs. Like this one: The prompt is always the same:\u00a0&#8220;How many states are there in the United States?&#8221;. This is recon to find open LLMs. Not necessarily to exploit them, but to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-9971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isc-sans-edu","tag-isc-sans-edu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}