I would think that would be an indicator of economic issues; it's usually cheaper to stay in your own country vs traveling abroad. Especially vs. the US Dollar, although it's got better the last couple of months.
You’re describing changing the base assumption for software reachable on the internet. “Assume all possible unauthenticated urls will be hit basically constantly”. Bots used to exist but they were rare traffic spikes that would usually behave well and could mostly be ignored. No longer.
If it’s legit you can ask your ISP if they sell use of your hardware. Or just don’t use the provided hardware and instead BYO router or modem or media converter or whatever.
But I think what OP is implying is insecure hardware being infected by malware and access to that hardware sold as a service to disreputable actors. For that buy a good quality router and keep it up to date.
The irony of this is that since every transaction and all its metadata is on chain, it has turned out to be easily traced back to the beginning of time. Fully open, the opposite of anonymized. (see: Chainalysis et. al.)
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