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.” ｣

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/27/open-source-devs-are-fighting-ai-crawlers-with-cleverness-and-vengeance/

RE: "Denial"

Jeremy Keith on the Denial of using AI.

https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-adactio-com-journal-21831

#linkblog #SuggestedRead #ai #tech #ddos #open web

I've seen a real uptick the past couple of days in attacks on my IP address space. Not sure if I'm being targeted, or part of a wider campaign. Oh well, fail2ban makes quick work of them

#DDoS Attacks on the Rise, but How Can You Prevent One?

DDoS attacks are increasing each year. But what actually are they? And how can your business prevent them from occurring?

https://tech.co/news/what-ddos-attack-how-prevent

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?

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.

Sales pitch toward the end.

Akamai: DDoS Attack Trends in 2024 Signify That Sophistication Overshadows Size https://www.akamai.com/blog/security/ddos-attack-trends-2024-signify-sophistication-overshadows-size @akamai_research #cybersecurity #infosec #DDoS

DNS Attacks – Explained

#ddos #dns #java

https://svenruppert.com/2025/04/07/dns-attacks-explained/

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…

Managing AI Bots+ w/ Apache MPM, FPM, & Fail2Ban: https://tech.haacksnetworking.org/2025/04/06/managing-ai-bots-w-apache-mpm-fpm-fail2ban/ There's been a lot of continued discussion on this topic, so I decided to investigate some of the common reports, compare those to my own hardware, theoretical ceilings and caps, and then adjusted my LAMP stack and fail2ban as per this blog entry. Let me know what yall think or if you find any errors or questionable claims. -oemb1905 #ai #scraping #apache #opensource #freesoftware #floss #ddos #php

The Dutch web hosting company Argeweb has experienced performance issues for over a week now.

#Netherlands #Argeweb #DDoS #cybersecurity

https://cnews.link/ddos-attack-cripples-hosting-company-1/

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Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in 2024 at OVH.

https://blog.ovhcloud.com/a-brief-retrospective-of-network-layer-ddos-attacks-in-2024-at-ovhcloud/
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Attaques de déni de service distribuées (DDoS) en 2024 chez OVH.

// Publication en anglais //

«There’s been something of an epidemic of malicious bots on the internet these days. You may have seen a post recently titled “Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face“, or “FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies“. Those are all happening to us, too. Surprise.»

TCRF has been getting DDoSed – Xkeeper's blog - https://blog.xkeeper.net/uncategorized/tcrf-has-been-getting-ddosed/

Getting #DDOS-ed by #AIcrawlers right now, even though I have a strict robots.txt.

Outgoing traffic suddenly increased (more or less 10 times regular traffic).

I have to block their crap using my firewall. That's NOT OK.

An interesting code hosting related downside of AI. #ai #ddos #web #scraping #copyright #code

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/27/open-source-devs-are-fighting-ai-crawlers-with-cleverness-and-vengeance/

Daten-hungrige KI-Bots zwingen (versehentlich) #foss Websites in die Knie #ki #ai #ddos #crawler https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/

After #DDOS attacks, #Blizzard rolls back Hardcore #WoW deaths for the first time

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/03/not-so-permadeath-blizzard-revives-hardcore-wow-characters-killed-by-ddos-attacks/