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Michael Buckbee
Michael Buckbee

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Botnets are equal opportunity attackers

🤖 It’s an easy mistake to dismiss bots as “dumb” because they’re probing for some technology you don’t use and would never be on your site.

🛡 But they’re equal-opportunity attackers; here’s a bot we identified with Wafris that was probing for:

  • YII PHP Web Framework admin
  • VS Code FTP Credentials
  • Microsoft Exchange Backups
  • Git Credentials
  • Python Drupal Configs
  • Mac .DS_Store files
  • Laravel Telescope requests viewer

🕵‍♂️ Botnets are often rented out or repurposed for other attacks. Blocking their IPs or networks is a way to cut them off at the knees.

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