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Most of the CVE-2026-4020 attackers are the same client


Almost every IP we logged exploiting the Gravity SMTP credential bug shares one HTTP fingerprint. Behind it is a Google Cloud fleet of thousands of short-lived instances, disguised by 3,299 rotating user-agents, sweeping more than 36,000 ports for .env files, git configs, credentials, and database dumps.

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