While I looking at OpenEDR repo I managed to compile it (I removed non open source libraries except few of them come from Microsoft). Then I realized it sending data to valkyrie.comodo.com Does this connection is protected or not? Because my own firewall alerts it if I don’t have whitelist. Here is the related part of code: HydraDragonAntivirus/OpenEDR/edrav2/iprj/libcloud/src/valkyrieclient-DELETE.h at 9f6b307b0875c2dc435f8e508f7c753b5bb0715a · HydraDragonAntivirus/HydraDragonAntivirus · GitHub
the same issue exists in Bitdefender: BitdefenderTrafifcLight/trafficlight.py at main · HydraDragonAntivirus/BitdefenderTrafifcLight · GitHub
The same issue also exists in GridinSoft until end of 2025. They added cloudflare.
If this very dumb question sorry for that but it seems like anybody can send garbage data to valkyrie!
Does that mean Valkyrie could be flooded by a bad actor?
Yeah but I don’t think it’s vulnerablity or something since you can only send random data.
Just wondering out loud. Could it be used for a (D)DOS attack?
You need multiple servers for that otherwise even if you send 300k requests from one server it didn’t going to work. So yes but you need many servers. If you can see for testing I send many testign requests to Bitdefender from one server to collect test data and nothing happened to his server excpet one requests get non 200 (too many requests error but this very rarely happen when you collect data parallel) after many requests but then become normal.