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psuPete

#LLRX #CyberSecurity @bespacific

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 12, 2025

Five highlights from this week: #Biometrics vs. passcodes: What lawyers recommend if you're worried about warrantless phone searches; #DDoS Attacks Now Key Weapons in Geopolitical Conflicts, #NETSCOUT Warns; Google Maps doubles down on preventing fake reviews; Large number of US adults view AI as a threat: Report; and Explosive Growth of Non-Human Identities (#NHI) Creating Massive Security Blind Spots.

Posted in: #AI Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, #Privacy

llrx.com/2025/04/pete-recommen

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jbz

😎 Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance
—@TechCrunch

｢ It’s intended to “slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don’t respect ‘no crawl’ directives,” Cloudflare described in its blog post. Cloudflare said it feeds misbehaving AI crawlers “irrelevant content rather than extracting your legitimate website data.” ｣

techcrunch.com/2025/03/27/open

TechCrunch · Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance | TechCrunchAI web crawling bots are the cockroaches of the internet, many developers believe. FOSS devs are fighting back in ingenuous, humorous ways.
#ddos#ai#aicrawlers
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Martinus Hoevenaar

Had to adjust my .htaccess file today, because a SEO company had their bot trying to scrape my site. It didn't get further than the index-page, but it was comparable to a small DDoS, as in 5700 hits per minute.
Now let's hope the adjustment helps.
If it doesn't then their domain will be added to the firewall. And if they continue, I'll ask my lawyer to send a cease & desist. But for now: let's hope those motherfuckers stay away.

#ai#bots#seo
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Rachel Rawlings

I'm having trouble figuring out what kind of botnet has been hammering our web servers over the past week. Requests come in from tens of thousands of addresses, just once or twice each (and not getting blocked by fail2ban), with different browser strings (Chrome versions ranging from 24.0.1292.0 - 108.0.5163.147) and ridiculous cobbled-together paths like /about-us/1-2-3-to-the-zoo/the-tiny-seed/10-little-rubber-ducks/1-2-3-to-the-zoo/the-tiny-seed/the-nonsense-show/slowly-slowly-slowly-said-the-sloth/the-boastful-fisherman/the-boastful-fisherman/brown-bear-brown-bear-what-do-you-see/the-boastful-fisherman/brown-bear-brown-bear-what-do-you-see/brown-bear-brown-bear-what-do-you-see/pancakes-pancakes/pancakes-pancakes/the-tiny-seed/pancakes-pancakes/pancakes-pancakes/slowly-slowly-slowly-said-the-sloth/the-tiny-seed

(I just put together a bunch of Eric Carle titles as an example. The actual paths are pasted together from valid paths on our server but in invalid order, with as many as 32 subdirectories.)

Has anyone else been seeing this and do you have an idea what's behind it?

#botnet#ddos#webscraping
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Dissent Doe :cupofcoffee:

So apart from the attempt to open a lot of Facebook accounts using my domain, my site has also been under sporadic DDoS attacks. I hope you don't have too much trouble connecting at times.

And no, I have no idea who I ticked off now. 😂

#DDoS
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LinuxNews.de

Nachdem diverse #ki #ai #crawler besonders respektvoll mit den öffentlichen Ressourcen von Open Source Projekten umgehen, habe ich mich dazu entschlossen eben diese auszusperren. Wir hatten in der Vergangenheit crawls, die im #monitoring als #ddos gewertet wurden.

Diverse AS erfreuen sich nun einem dauerhaften 429, einige wenige die es für alle kaputt machen…

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