F5 analysis: 2024 CVE scanning surge driven by BotPoke scanner and a few German Contabo-hosted IPs
F5 Labs, using Efflux sensor telemetry, found that HTTP requests hitting its sensors rose from 5,125,557 in 2023 to 8,727,820 in 2024 (about 71%, or nearly 95% once normalized for sensor count). Most of the increase came from the BotPoke scanner, which looks for filenames associated with malware distribution sites. It was active mainly in…