Drop port scanners
To protect the Router from port scanners, we can record the IPs of hackers who try to scan your box. Using this address list we can drop connection from those IP
in /ip firewall filter
/ip firewall filter
add action=add-src-to-address-list address-list="port scanners"
address-list-timeout=2w chain=input comment="Port scanners to list" disabled=no protocol=tcp psd=21,3s,3,1
add action=add-src-to-address-list address-list="port scanners"
address-list-timeout=2w chain=input comment="NMAP FIN Stealth scan" disabled=no protocol=tcp tcp-flags=fin,!syn,!rst,!psh,!ack,!urg
add action=add-src-to-address-list address-list="port scanners"
address-list-timeout=2w chain=input comment="SYN/FIN scan" disabled=no protocol=tcp tcp-flags=fin,syn
add action=add-src-to-address-list address-list="port scanners"
address-list-timeout=2w chain=input comment="SYN/RST scan" disabled=no protocol=tcp tcp-flags=syn,rst
add action=add-src-to-address-list address-list="port scanners"
address-list-timeout=2w chain=input comment="FIN/PSH/URG scan" disabled= no protocol=tcp tcp-flags=fin,psh,urg,!syn,!rst,!ack
add action=add-src-to-address-list address-list="port scanners"
address-list-timeout=2w chain=input comment="ALL/ALL scan" disabled=no protocol=tcp tcp-flags=fin,syn,rst,psh,ack,urg
add action=add-src-to-address-list address-list="port scanners"
address-list-timeout=2w chain=input comment="NMAP NULL scan" disabled=no protocol=tcp tcp-flags=!fin,!syn,!rst,!psh,!ack,!urg
Then you can drop those IPs:
add chain=input src-address-list="port scanners" action=drop comment="dropping port scanners" disabled=no
Similarly, you can drop these port scanners in the forward chain, but using the above rules with "chain=forward".