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Bad Bot Problem

Following a report on the situation with Social Media and bots, Lewis Stuart of University of Nottingham is inspired to see just how easy it is to fire up his own botnet and puts them to work on a fake social media site: 'scroll hole.'

📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjQNDCYL5Rg

#socialmedia #botproblems #aislop #web #botnet #internet #youtube #video #yt #bot #ai #badbot #badbots #fake #social #fakesocialists #network

Im gesamten Januar waren es 1192 Browser, die zum ersten (!) Mal auf meine Webseite zugreifen wollten, davon wurden 1134 (95%) geblockt. Netscape Navigator 5 ist angeblich immer noch unterwegs.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wimb-and-block/

#wordpress #badbots

My plugin blocks old and suspicious browsers (user agents). It also generates statistics. So far this month, 1038 out of 1134 browsers have been blocked (92%). 745 browsers visited my website for the first time this month. Of these, 719 (97%) were blocked! That really surprised me.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wimb-and-block/

#wordpress #badbots

Mein Plugin blockt alte und verdächtige Browser (User-Agenten). Es erstellt auch Statistiken. Diesen Monat wurden bisher 1038 von 1134 Browsern geblockt (92%). 745 Browser besuchten meine Webseite in diesem Monat das erste Mal. Davon wurden 719 (97%) geblockt! Das hat mich dann doch überrascht.

https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/wimb-and-block/

#wordpress #badbots

Laut dem «Bad Bot Report» von Imperva sind rund 1/3 des Internettraffics allein auf «Bad Bots» zurückzuführen. Die Anzahl & Qualität von #BadBots dürfte in nächster Zeit stark steigen (& damit die #Blackout -Gefahr), denn dank der KI kann jede/jeder auch ohne Programmierfähigkeiten #Bots erstellen.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:snbm6etjtqnajjmp3sgu4575/post/3m7sdmttdpc2p

Hva slags bothelvette er det på pubeurope.com som lenker til nyheter fra europesays.com hvor artiklene er stjålet fra andre aviser?

Ser at mastodon.social har softblokket dem.

#Norsktut #Allheimen #BadBots

So, someone in the issue made me realize that some bots impersonate the user agents of big actors, such as Googlebot. I checked my webserver logs and found a lot of them actually!

I liked the challenge, so I just wrote an article about how to do this in less than 40 SLOC 🏆
https://reaction.ppom.me/filters/useragent-impersonators.html

#reactionrust #bots #badbots #google #googlebot

AI 'Nudify' Websites Are Raking in Millions of Dollars

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/ai-nudify-websites-are-raking-in-millions-of-dollars/

Bots now dominate the web, posing serious threats to consumers and businesses. https://jpmellojr.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-internet-is-overrun-with-bots-and.html #Bots #BadBots #InternetTraffic #AI #AIPRM #BrandReputation

https://github.com/mariobreskic/apache-badbots #apache #fail2ban #badbots

Working with fail2ban. I am always torn between allowing bots, allowing some, disallowing all.
Time to make up my mind reading this article https://www.plesk.com/blog/product-technology/avoid-high-cpu-load-block-hackers-bad-bots-effectively/
#badbots

😤 Sneaker bots are driving up prices and making new releases unattainable. 👟

💣 Learn about the impact and how to combat these bots. https://bit.ly/3x5ZSZq

#sneakerbots #badbots #shoebots #xss #websitevulnerability #botdetection #bots #botmanagement #botprotection #waap #falsepositives #apptrana #indusface

👉 Social media bots can disrupt your advertising, skew metrics, and impact interactions.

Discover effective ways to identify and mitigate them: https://bit.ly/3X5VW5C

#socialmediabots #badbots #socialbots #badbots #botdetection #botmitigation #botprotection #botmanagement #waap #managedservices #apptrana #indusface

Ever wondered what a #bot really is? 🤖 From chatbots helping with customer service to web crawlers indexing the internet, bots are everywhere! 🌐

In our latest guide, we dive into:

🤖 The definition and evolution of bots
📜 Different types of bots
🌍 Impact of good & bad bots on our daily lives
🔍 Detecting and blocking malicious bots

With bot traffic accounting for almost 50% of all internet traffic and 2/3rd of them being bad bots, it’s crucial to understand their influence on our online activities.

Discover more now! https://bit.ly/3KkgVtI

#badbots #webcrawlers #maliciousbots #ddosattacks #datascraping #malware #botmanagement #managedservices #waap #apptrana #indusface

👉 Did you know that over 40% of internet traffic is #bot traffic? 🤖

Distinguishing between humans and bad bots is becoming increasingly difficult as attacks become more sophisticated, making it challenging to identify their true nature.

Learn more about what #badbots are with tips to effectively identify and handle them - https://bit.ly/44R8CPp

#maliciousbots #webapplications #cyberattacks #goodbots #botprotection #botattacks #databreaches #ddosattacks #cybersecurity #botnets #botmitigation #apptrana #indusface

@J12t and that's only 2023! We didn't have ubiquitous AI bots in 2023. I'm feeling nostalgic already!

#deadinternet #onlyhalfdead #badbots #nocookieforyou

I wrote a short post about my experience Anthropic and their Claudebot AI here in Mastodon a week or two ago. I had reached out to their support email address and received an instant auto notice saying that they got my email and a human would reply soon. Well, it’s been a week or two and no reply. My advice to everyone is to block Claudebot. Seems pretty AI scammy, complete with empty promises.

#ai #badbots #bots #nonphp