This is an interesting story about the number of Confluence honeypots out there. Some researchers looked at how many Confluence instances are on the internet, and they found over 200,000, and were able to reduce it to 4000 when they filtered out likely honeypots.
vulncheck.com
This is important because the large number of honeypots could skew the news about the number of vulnerable systems.

There Are Too Many Damn Honeypots - Blog - VulnCheck
VulnCheck faces a horde of honeypots while assessing the potential impact of Atlassian Confluence's CVE-2023-22527. This blog delves into Shodan queries to filter out honeypots and uncover the actual on-premise Confluence install base.
This is important because the large number of honeypots could skew the news about the number of vulnerable systems.
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