How the FSF Sysadmins are Blocking Botnets with reaction

自由软件基金会系统管理员如何采取反应行动阻止僵尸网络

来源: fsf.org | 主题: GNU is Not Unix | 评论: 10

时间: on Saturday July 11, 2026 @05:47PM

For nearly two years the Free Software Foundation has been fighting web crawlers (including many aggressively scraping training data for AI models). A botnet controlling about five million IPs hit one system for six months in 2025 . Their systems administrator wrote this week that they view these as distributed denial-of-service attacks. How are they fighting back? We noticed patterns in the scrapers that were abnormal, which gave us material for writing regular expressions. Searching for the regular expression then gave us a large lists of IP addresses. Looking up the origin of those IP addresses revealed that some of the crawlers were using botnets of residential IP addresses to scrape faster and avoid detection. We looked for what kinds of botnets might be generating the kind of traffic

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