#botattack

2025-10-11
Running my own newsletter using #Mailman since 20 years, manually confirming every request. Luckily. Last night and this morning i had the very first bot attack in all that time, using an online membership request form to bomb request with auto-generated email addresses, btw often but not always starting with the letters b'.
What could generally be done to discard those requests automatically?
Setting up a honeypot within the online form, using an empty subject or name field invisible to a human visitor (using CSS), then discarding those requests automatically, which fill those invisible fields nonetheless?
Further suggestions anyone? Would be much appreciated!

#BotAttack #newsletter #honeypot #antispam
WEDOSwedos
2025-02-26

โš ๏ธ Your website isnโ€™t just visited by real users โ€“ bots are taking over! ๐Ÿค–

We analyzed our traffic, and the results are shocking:
โŒ GPTBot from OpenAI โ€“ almost 7 MILLION requests!
โŒ Meta, Googlebot, Bingbot โ€“ constantly crawling your pages

This slows down your site, drains your resources, and steals CPU power from real visitors.
Do you even know whoโ€™s hitting your site?

Let's get protected: wedos.protection

2023-12-04

๐Ÿ‘‰ Bot attacks are rising, and preparing your business for the upcoming threats is important.

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#bot #botmanagement #bots #botmitigation #botnet #botprotection #cybersecurity #bottrends #appsecurity #apptrana #indusface

DrSimon CarrDrSimonCarr@mas.to
2022-12-03

Slowly but surely I am migrating away from Twitter over to Mastodon. I get the feeling it will take a long time for the network to be as wide, complex and varied, but Iโ€™m pretty sure Mastodon is the future. Well done @trumpet for keeping it going despite the massive #BotAttack you have dealt with today!

ฮ›NTTI ๐•ท๐–Ž๐–“๐–‰๐–˜๐–™๐–—๐–”ฬˆ๐–’lindstorm@mstdn.social
2022-12-03

Apparently thereโ€™s a #BotAttack targetted towards Mastodon, mas.to in specific. All the support and kudos to Mastodon admins, theyโ€™re doing big work for the federation&community. #reddit

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Kunterbuntes Neukรถllnkunterbuntesneukoelln@chaos.social
2022-11-03

Uff auf Twitter sind wir gerade Opfer einer russischen Bot-Attacke. Mehrere tausend Nachrichten bei den Nachrichtenanfragen. Es sind unterschiedliche Bot-Accounts daher ist es mit einem einfachen Block nicht getan. #Bot #botattack #cyberkrieg #Russland

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