lazy llama
Well-known member
I noticed a recent increase in Guest users on the forum I administer.
We're behind Cloudflare, and I'd previously set up some Cloudflare rules to challenge connections from certain countries and ASNs. We also use CFs AI bot blocker etc.
The increased traffic is from multiple IPs, with different user-agents, and the countries vary (Brazil is the source of the highest connections recently).
It's obviously automated traffic, at least to the human eye. Writing rules to filter the traffic is more challenging though.
Cloudflare usually shows us getting around 50-70k unique visitors per day. During these 'spikes' we're getting 10-20x that level.
Looking at the XenForo community current online users, I see a very similar set of figures:
Is anyone else seeing this? Any idea what the purpose is? Is it bad AI bots using a distributed botnet to request pages? It's not causing denial of service, so far at least.
We're behind Cloudflare, and I'd previously set up some Cloudflare rules to challenge connections from certain countries and ASNs. We also use CFs AI bot blocker etc.
The increased traffic is from multiple IPs, with different user-agents, and the countries vary (Brazil is the source of the highest connections recently).
It's obviously automated traffic, at least to the human eye. Writing rules to filter the traffic is more challenging though.
Cloudflare usually shows us getting around 50-70k unique visitors per day. During these 'spikes' we're getting 10-20x that level.
Looking at the XenForo community current online users, I see a very similar set of figures:
Is anyone else seeing this? Any idea what the purpose is? Is it bad AI bots using a distributed botnet to request pages? It's not causing denial of service, so far at least.
