Comment by alexpotato

> It looks like a primitive chess engine, trying every move, no matter how stupid, until it works.

The Morris worm happened in 1988 [0].

I mention this b/c people like to say "the agents wanted to hack" but really this is just a few levels above the "keep trying the same port on multiple machines".

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm