Port 6443 (k8s API)

HoneyLabs honeypots recorded 903 probes against destination port 6443 (k8s API) from 234 distinct source IP addresses in the last 7 days.

First observed 2026-11-08 10:04, most recently 2026-11-15 08:26 (UTC).

What the sensors show

The sources sat in 43 networks across 22 countries. No single address sent more than 4% of them. The largest source network was AS6939 (Hurricane Electric LLC), with 20% of the probes from 44 addresses. 8 of the 25 busiest addresses are recognised research scanners.

Most active source addresses

Source IPProbesNetworkCountry
74.82.47.338Hurricane Electric LLCUS
77.91.71.9134Alferov Aleksey AleksandrovichRU
185.136.15.11134AO ALMAZKZ
185.136.15.11017AO ALMAZKZ
77.91.71.9017Alferov Aleksey AleksandrovichRU
65.49.1.10815Hurricane Electric LLCUS
185.191.236.3815GRUPO PANAGLOBAL 15 S.ACH
185.136.15.215AO ALMAZKZ

Networks it comes from

ASNOrganisationProbesSource IPs
AS6939Hurricane Electric LLC18244
AS14061DigitalOcean, LLC11728
AS15169Google LLC8016
AS210328AO ALMAZ663
AS22168The Shadowserver Foundation, Inc.6120
AS211486Alferov Aleksey Aleksandrovich512

Where it comes from

CountryProbes
United States403
Germany110
Belgium81
Russia70
Kazakhstan66
Switzerland24

Client strings seen on this port

User agentProbes
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/141.0.0.0 Safari/537.3696
Go-http-client/1.157
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; CensysInspect/1.1; +https://about.censys.io/)43
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.0.0 Safari/537.3636
Hello from Palo Alto Networks, find out more about our scans in https://docs-cortex.paloaltonetworks.com/r/1/Cortex-Xpanse/Scanning-activity25

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