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Gitea user reports massive IP-based scraping attack

By PulseAugur Editorial · [1 sources] ·

A user reported a coordinated scraping attempt on their Gitea repositories, with over 7,500 unique IP addresses accessing the logs. The user described this as a potential DDoS attack, noting that such incidents are increasingly common and attributed to AI-driven activities. They expressed frustration that the bots were inefficiently scraping the web interface rather than directly cloning the repositories. AI

RANK_REASON User-reported incident of bot activity on a self-hosted service, not a major industry event.

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Gitea user reports massive IP-based scraping attack

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User-reported incident of bot activity on a self-hosted service, not a major industry event.
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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 Deutsch(DE) · [email protected] ·

    cat access.log | grep "/php/Lucky" | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc -l 7507 Seven thousand five hundred and seven distinct/unique IP addresses snorche

    cat access.log | grep "/php/Lucky" | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc -l 7507 Siebentausendfünfhundertundsieben verschiedene/eindeutige IP-Adressen schnorcheln gerade in einer koordinierten Aktion meine Gitea-Repositories ab. Das Log zeigt die Zugriffe nacheinander - aber jede…

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