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| The web is broken, IMHOSo there is a (IMHO) shady market out there that gives a… | |
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| What these companies then sell to *their* customers is network access through t… | |
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| Now, again, this company is just one of many selling similar services. And they… | |
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| But this explains the explosion of bot traffic that really cripples a lot of sm… | |
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| I already blogged about this at https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/02/Blocking-Stea… | |
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| Addendum: Trend Micro did some research on these companies back in 2023 and it … | |
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| Addendum 2: If you want to feel really dirty, go to https://proxyway.com/review… | |
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| If you've made it to this final post of this thread — thank you for your … | |
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| Done: This thread is now a blog post at https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/04/Web-i… | |
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| @jwildeboer Are there known C2 servers we could put into pi-hole? | |
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| Just as an example. In the past 24 hours I had "visitors" from 47 cou… | |
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| @jwildeboer just found out today about Infatica's SDK. At a loss how to vet… | |
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| @jwildeboer @janl related work: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8835239 | |
| Post #AtKA1NbIpIbP5il4AS by [email protected] | |
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| @[email protected] So is this a bot net that has been legitimized… | |
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| @lyrial @jwildeboer They approached me earlier this year (and have since been g… | |
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| @foosel I wonder, do you have those lines of TOS they suggest? I assume many de… | |
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| @zombiecide @lyrial @jwildeboer They didn't suggest specific lines sadly, a… | |
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| @jwildeboer Oh my ... For me, that's just another good reason to avoid prop… | |
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| @jwildeboer not sure it is listed on it but a tool such as @exodus may be able … | |
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| @[email protected] @[email protected] So how is this not a bigg… | |
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| @lyrial I am also wondering about that, TBH (To Be Honest). I do hope that some… | |
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| @jwildeboerWhat are we looking at here, if I may ask? Is that some kind of IDS … | |
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| @yala That's just a csv file I've opened in Apple Numbers :) The csv fi… | |
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| @jwildeboer I see some providers listed there that I used to scrape Google serv… | |
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| @dusoftcan you share your URL of the website that provided you the name of the … | |
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| @lyrial That's one way to see it. Not one I would subscribe to, though. Yes… | |
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| @jwildeboer96 degrees in the shade | |
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| @xdej @jwildeboer You mean BrightData scraping? | |
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| @foosel @lyrial @jwildeboer Did they prescribe the text to be added to TOS, or … | |
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| @cwicseolfor See https://chaos.social/@foosel/114360318492193700 Of course the… | |
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| @jwildeboerI see ^_^ Thanks.There's some auto-grouping, pivot table thing g… | |
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| @yala Hahaha, no. Much simpler. I simply made column CC a category and sorted b… | |
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| @jwildeboerWe don't have such slick stuff on Linux. 🙃 | |
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| @yala Sure we have! LibreOffice can do the same, no problem. | |
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| @dusoft I had to make my forgejo instance non-public, as 95% of the traffic tha… | |
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| @jwildeboer I am still amused by the number of IP addresses from Australia. Per… | |
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| @jwildeboer Yep, the longer I use the internet, the more I seem to segregate my… | |
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| @jwildeboer It's a big problem. I run some serious infrastructure (6 really… | |
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| @foosel @lyrial @jwildeboer in all earnesty, it feels highly inappropriate to s… | |
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| @jwildeboer is there a way to block this traffic on the router level? I'm p… | |
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| @jwildeboerI did some of my own research on this topic but due to various reaso… | |
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| @jwildeboer You inspired me to check my own webserver logs (~3 months of logs) … | |
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| @jwildeboer je zou er bang van worden om je eigen mail of webserver op te zette… | |
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| @vank Yes, that's what many people and companies want you to feel. I don… | |
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| @jwildeboer what does that traffic look like on the home LAN? I ask because I&#… | |
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| @ktneely Most of the time it looks like legit traffic, browsing web pages etc. … | |
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| @jwildeboer that makes a lot of sense, and I figured it was something like that… | |
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| @jwildeboerI need to deal with some of this garbage (though not this particular… | |
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| @jwildeboer If that's how the AI bots get their seemingly infinite amount o… | |
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| @jwildeboer @lyrial yeah... I thought long and hard about trying to get some at… | |
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| @jwildeboer I am saying there are other use cases than the only one identified … | |
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| @jwildeboerIt's weird how close the name Infatica sounds to Infected. | |
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| Holy shit. I'd like to say I'm surprised but... only sorta?This sort of… | |
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| @jwildeboer these should be picked up by #exodus #exodusprivacy and hopefully #… | |
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| @mediapart @bastamedia voici une description du développement de la mafia du… | |
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| @PANAFRICANSSI @jwildeboer Telstra sells cheap VPNs with Australian IPs. About … | |
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| please @foosel can you answer @zombiecide request? It will help a lot fighting … | |
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| @dusoft Sure. But I will block your scraperbot just like all the other ones. Th… | |
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| @xdej @zombiecide @lyrial @jwildeboer I did answer 2d ago? https://chaos.social… | |
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| @jwildeboer THANK YOU! The explosion of Just Legitimate Enough traffic has been… | |
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| @user59 And that's just one of many Libraries/SDKs that are out there. And … | |
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| @jwildeboer I did a search for "bitdefender and infatica.io" as there… | |
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| @jwildeboer very good article and important to raise awareness of this. Any rec… | |
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| @marce I guess that’ll be part 3 of the series. | |
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| @jwildeboer I had my Forgeojo instance (oddly same service) almost entirely unu… | |
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| @jwildeboer In a more sane world, this would be the work of *investigative jour… | |
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| @JeffGrigg I trust that given enough reactions, this topic will be picked up by… | |
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| @jwildeboer that's certainly part of the puzzle why we see so much scraping… | |
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| @sadmin Yes, they use the same IP addresses in the same timeframe. Seems that 9… | |
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| @jwildeboer okay scraping is one thing. But brute forcing makes this a botnet p… | |
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| @dusoft @xdej @jwildeboer Are you sure BrightData are legit? Are you sure you&#… | |
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| @wako @xdej @jwildeboer Legit in what way exactly? They are a data provider, no… | |
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| @jwildeboer yes, no doubt. For now though I'm looking at Microsoft's ZT… | |
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| @dusoft @xdej @jwildeboer scraping is one thing, scraping using "residenti… | |
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| @wako @xdej @jwildeboer It might be, but it also helps to scrape Google (that i… | |
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| @dusoft @jwildeboer Could you describe this "use case" and how it is … | |
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| @JeffGrigg @jwildeboer Google indexes webpages, my script indexes some Google w… | |
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| @jwildeboer I am going to build the tech to destroy this business model. | |
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| @ryancFake the library to take the cash without making the requests?@jwildeboer | |
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| @xdej @jwildeboer real time proxy detection |