showdan, what part does it have?

So I know its a little late to add it to the article being worked on with images and the like, but I did find something interesting out in regards to Wannacry that I thought was interesting. There is a search engine out there called shodan, and I’m not even sure of its spelling. From what I understand of this site, it is similar to Google, but yet, it populates all of the machines with open ports, among other things. Whatever this site is, it also does port scanning, where you can ask it who has a certain port open. Instead of phishing, I saw something that said the people involved searched for machines with port 445 open, and infected that way. I’m still thinking the possibility of a phish is still there, but anything is possible.

shodan