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I had just opened up my network to outside requests ,thinking this will only take a few minutes.  The idea was to  attack my home network from the outside, blasting it  with endless loops of rapid queries from external servers in cyber space, thus simulating a DDOS attack  .    It turns out I was not alone in attacking my Network .

When I went to my monitor DDOS monitor screen to see my attack, I saw  the chart below.   All those Source Ports showing  22 are the result of a server on my network , randomly attempting to login to computers outside my network .  How ironic , while testing my own DDOS software from an outside attack , I find out that one of my servers has been hijacked to do the dirty work for some other hacker.  I am only showing about 46 attempts  in the table below, but all in all ,there were about 450 of them.  They  appeared all of a sudden out of nowhere.  And then, Comcast shut me down, when I hit their security circuit breaker.  Or so I surmised, because this is not the first time this has happened to me, and I usually get  a call from Comcast telling me to run my virus software.  You know how you are not supposed to talk to strangers ? Well I had been getting these calls out of the blue from somebody claiming to be “Comcast” security , and the sounds in the background during the scratchy call were like one of those Indian boiler plate call centers … so I had been ignoring them, just humoring these people.  But perhaps they really were Comcast ? Or perhaps this was just the coup do grace from the hacker pretending to be Comcast after orchestrating the attack, in order to gain my trust and get my bank account ?  Like a bad Mission Impossible plot I don’t know who to trust anymore.
Index     SRCP    DSTP    Wavg    Avg       IP1           IP2           Ptcl  Port  Pool  TOS
0     46762      22   203   336    191.7.193.69   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
1     54211      22    29    90    85.25.211.119   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
2     52734      22    15     0    174.159.244.177   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
3        22   33388    42     0    192.168.1.130   93.97.181.70  TCP   2   2    1
4        22   49398   238   277    192.168.1.130   125.137.155.50  TCP   2   2    1
5     49184      22    66   152    192.81.170.254   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
6        22   49184   163   374    192.168.1.130   192.81.170.254  TCP   2   2    1
7     51722      22   142   214    217.92.189.104   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
8     38133      22    11     0    146.155.249.71   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
9     55232      22    93   400    178.49.172.175   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
10     50373      22    20    40    190.81.51.11   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
11        22   40073    21    35    192.168.1.130   31.45.215.117  TCP   2   2    1
12        22   39950    11    40    192.168.1.130   101.251.207.162  TCP   2   2    1
13        22   51889     9     0    192.168.1.130   169.236.135.241  TCP   2   2    1
14        22   53866   204  1036    192.168.1.130   95.211.215.206  TCP   2   2    1
15     57596      22    93   236    207.244.67.170   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
16        22   51971   188   384    192.168.1.130   66.242.228.2  TCP   2   2    1
17        22   53617   328   580    192.168.1.130   37.228.133.94  TCP   2   2    1
18     52574      22   206   338    177.21.237.77   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
19        22   56081    23    93    192.168.1.130   216.104.36.94  TCP   2   2    1
20        22   41126   213   771    192.168.1.130   176.31.199.232  TCP   2   2    1
21        22   33853   209   384    192.168.1.130   71.11.128.190  TCP   2   2    1
22        22   52185   282  2369    192.168.1.130   74.220.208.72  TCP   2   2    1
23        22   54224   224  1032    192.168.1.130   46.32.230.170  TCP   2   2    1
24        22   52065   710   806    192.168.1.130   49.212.12.217  TCP   2   2    1
25     43568      22    28    88    52.2.123.169   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
26        22   39032   200   558    192.168.1.130   199.34.242.73  TCP   2   2    1
27     53968      22   148   265    37.228.133.94   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
28     39950      22    17    60    101.251.207.162   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
29        22   44785   320   464    192.168.1.130   87.230.40.94  TCP   2   2    1
30     41889      22    13     0    70.4.134.198   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
31        22   35743   233   368    192.168.1.130   141.105.174.210  TCP   2   2    1
32        22   48689   298   373    192.168.1.130   12.11.100.194  TCP   2   2    1
33     36165      22   226   293    200.170.215.154   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
34     44991      22    53   146    191.5.224.79   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
35     38500      22   180   345    192.227.164.167   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
36     50944      22     8     0    199.174.12.17   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
37     39511      22   168   319    104.128.117.32   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
38     53820      22    16    30    95.84.153.61   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
39     47030      22   225   261    190.161.86.105   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
40        22   38500   367   735    192.168.1.130   192.227.164.167  TCP   2   2    1
41     33165      22   119   248    138.94.144.250   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
42     51185      22    18    60    46.105.163.187   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
43     48472      22    18    60    72.249.105.159   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
44     32890      22    89   174    95.177.200.94   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
45     57725      22    75   180    88.11.129.198   192.168.1.130  TCP   1   2    1
46        22   55358  1072  1373    192.168.1.130   138.91.57.190  TCP   2   2    1