No One Inside The Machine
Censys analyzes vibe-coded AI apps that target students and children. Unprotected and not yet detectable with conventional threat detection.
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Internet Intelligence
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Roblox, Minecraft, and the Insidious Internet for Children
An exploration of Roblox and Minecraft offerwalls and phishing lures — infrastructure that isn’t well covered by conventional threat intelligence.
What the 2026 Verizon DBIR Signals About Internet Intelligence and External Visibility
2026 Verizon DBIR: AI is accelerating the threat landscape. Learn why Censys Intelligence is critical for cybersecurity defenders.
Who's Knocking on Your PLC? A Honeypot View of Internet-Wide Interest in ICS/OT Protocols
Censys ICS/OT honeypot study reveals 764 industrial protocol events in 9 days. Learn how exposed Modbus, S7comm, BACnet & IPMI systems attract targeted scanning and exploitation.
Iran's Internet: A Censys Perspective
Iran's internet blackout since June 18, 2025: Censys research tracks host visibility, ASN recovery rates, and TIC transit bottlenecks across Iranian networks.
The Importance of Poppin’ Fresh Data
Censys outperforms Shodan, ZoomEye & other scanning engines with 92% accuracy, 82% port coverage, and 10x faster data updates. See the full research comparison.
The Persistent Threat of Salt Typhoon: Tracking Exposures of Potentially Targeted Devices
Track Salt Typhoon's attack surface: Censys research reveals 6-month exposure trends for Cisco, Sophos, Ivanti & Fortinet devices targeted by this Chinese state-sponsored threat actor.
Censeye: Gadgets!
Discover Censeye Gadgets – a new plugin system for extending threat intelligence research. Learn how query generator and data labeling gadgets help uncover adversary infrastructure.
Let's Look for Bad Stuff Using Censys' "Suspicious-Open-Directory" Label!
**Discover how Censys' new "suspicious-open-dir" label revolutionizes threat hunting by filtering 393K open directories down to ~1%, making malicious content detection faster and easier.**
From Vulnerable to Vigilant: 3 Critical Actions to Protect Healthcare from Cyber Threats
Healthcare cyberattacks are surging—breaches up 93% since 2018. Learn why cybercriminals target healthcare and how attack surface management can strengthen defenses.
What Does the Best Data Really Mean?
Censys surpasses one trillion scans, setting the standard for internet intelligence. Discover how the Censys Internet Map delivers unmatched coverage, accuracy & real-time visibility.
Highlights from the New Unleash the Power of Censys Search Handbook
Discover how Censys Search empowers cybersecurity teams with real-time internet intelligence. Download our free guide to track adversary infrastructure and craft powerful queries.
Securing FinServ: Exploring Cybersecurity Challenges in Financial Services
Discover the top cybersecurity challenges facing financial services firms and how FinServ threat intelligence teams can stay ahead of rising cyber attacks and protect high-value data.
Leveraging Censys Data: From the Classroom to Improving an Internet Monitoring Public Service
Discover how Georgia Tech researchers compare Censys and ANT Internet Census datasets to improve IODA's Internet outage detection using advanced measurement techniques.
Proactive Cybersecurity: How to Achieve NIST CSF 2.0 Objectives with Censys
Discover how the Censys Internet Intelligence Platform aligns with NIST CSF 2.0 to manage cybersecurity risks, reduce your attack surface, and strengthen your organization's security posture.
Back to the Future: How Historical Data Can Enhance Your Cyber Defenses
Discover why historical internet intelligence is essential for threat hunting. Learn how Censys helps security teams track adversary infrastructure, build timelines, and anticipate future cyberattacks.
Superior Internet Intelligence for Advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence Services
Enhance cyber defense with Censys Search — the industry's most comprehensive internet intelligence platform. Empower threat hunters with advanced threat detection and vulnerability insights.
24 Questions to Ask About Your Data in 2024
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The Perils of False Positives
When it comes to inaccurate data, what’s worse: a false negative, or a false positive? The question is a little unfair, because of course, nobody wants either. But it does bring to mind the fact that false negatives are often regarded as the more problematic type of inaccuracy. A false negative means that something (usually […]
Unleash the Power of Censys Search: Exploring More with Historical Data
Welcome back to Part III of our “Unleash the Power of Censys Search” series! In this series, we take a closer look at different ways Censys Search users can make the most of their engagement with the tool. In Part I, we provided tips for how to get started running queries in Censys Search. In […]
Unleash the Power of Censys Search: A Look at Censys Search in Action
In Part I of our “Unleash the Power of Censys Search” blog series, you read that enterprises, governments, and researchers can access our industry-leading internet intelligence by using the Censys Search tool. (If you haven’t had a chance to check out the blog, give it a read! Within you’ll find tips for how to […]
Unleash the Power of Censys Search: A Quick Guide to Queries
April 2026 Update: Censys has come a long way: an entire platform complete with pivoting, dashboards, rapid response queries by Censys ARC, investigation tools, and MCP support. Access sample queries within the free platform, and happy hunting! Whether you’re brand new to Censys Search and are looking for tips to get started, or are […]
Unlocking the Internet: Insights from the Censys Internet Map - Part 1
Just over thirty years ago, the world as we know it changed forever when the World Wide Web went public. Fast forward to today and most people can’t imagine what life was like before the internet. While the internet has been a catalyst for innovation and social change, it has also become a complex environment […]
Raising the Bar on Internet Coverage: Predictive Scanning Takes The Censys Internet Map to the Next Level
At Censys, our goal is to be the one place to understand everything on the internet – for more effective threat hunting and exposure management. With the rapid proliferation of cloud providers, software, web properties, remote devices, and more, it is becoming more challenging for security teams to identify threats or exposures and take action. […]
Revisiting the State of the Internet
It’s been about two months since we released our 2023 State of the Internet Report. With access to the most comprehensive internet-wide scan data available, narrowing our focus for the report to a specific area or set of technologies on the internet was a formidable challenge. Ultimately, we decided to focus on the web, […]
5 Ways to Win Buy-In for Better Internet Intelligence
Internet intelligence is at the heart of any successful cybersecurity strategy. Whether you’re proactively searching for suspicious activity or reacting to a CVE that just dropped, you can’t do your job well without if you don’t have a full view into today’s evolving threat landscape. However, sometimes security teams and stakeholders within the organization aren’t […]
Unlocking the Potential of X.509 Certificate Data
We are celebrating the launch of Certs 2.0 – the largest X.509 certificate repository in existence! ???? Our new Certs 2.0 index provides enhanced access to our extensive billion certificate repository, with more efficient and granular searching capabilities. Additional benefits include: With all these new goodies available, we wanted to take a moment and review why […]
Responding to the Lowering Cost of Cyber Hostility
As cyber hostility increases in volume, it’s easy to forget that the increases span the spectrum of sophistication. Zero day exploits and multi-million dollar ransoms might grab headlines, but the cost and ease of executing simple attacks is only getting cheaper and more accessible. Therefore, the digital security threats prevented by basic hygiene and sound […]
Fresh Search Query "Recipes" (+ Actual Food Recipes) to Start Your 2023
Running an internet search query can be a lot like cooking a meal. Hang with us here … If you think about it, both cooking and querying rely on stepwise orders of operation – both follow “recipes,” if you will. For example, if you’re looking to uncover hacked web hosts, you’ll follow a series of […]
Here's How Citizen Lab Used Censys to Expose a Spyware Vendor
The Challenge: Spyware from Candiru was used to impersonate sites from well-known advocacy organizations to target activists and human rights workers. Citizen Lab, a research institute at the University of Toronto, used Censys data to understand impersonated sites, passing the details forward to Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) to find exploits. What Citizen Lab achieved […]
Who's Down with IPP? Finding Internet-Connected Printers with Censys
In the Internet of Things (IoT) arena, printers might seem like the least of our problems. We’ve got new smart home devices connecting to the Internet every day—refrigerators, home security systems, washing machines (spoiler alert, your clothes are now clean and, no, you probably don’t need an app to know that). Arguably more worrisome are […]
GreyNoise Research Finds Censys Scan Data Is Fastest, Most Comprehensive
Cybersecurity firm GreyNoise Intelligence recently published “A Week In the Life of a GreyNoise Censor: A Benign View.” I’m incredibly excited about this blog because anytime an organization outside of yours conducts research that reinforces statements you make on a daily basis, it’s a wonderful thing. There’s even still some additional nuance to be explored, […]