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@keefmarshall@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

So my first evil genius robot honeypot, the word frequency one, seems to be getting hit by a distributed botnet.

It started around 2-3 requests per second but seems to be ramping up.

It's using IP addresses from all over the world - could be hacked personal devices? - and a wide range of plausible-looking User Agent strings.

My server is fine for now - 95% idle CPU.

Are there people for whom any of the IP or agent data might be useful? Botnet detectorists?

#botnet #ddos

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@keefmarshall@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

For clarity - it's not hitting the same URLs over and over, so this doesn't look like a concerted effort to bring the site down.

it is definitely crawling links - the site is an infinite generative labyrinth, so it could be in there a while!

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