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Stefan Bohacek@stefan@stefanbohacek.online (2026-06-25 22:44:23)
So we still don't know who's behind this, do we?
(Paywalled) https://www.wired.com/story/made-in-china-niche-websites-are-seeing-a-surge-of-mysterious-traffic-from-china/
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Stefan Bohacek@stefan@stefanbohacek.online (2026-06-25 22:44:51)
It looks like whoever is behind this has finally come for one of my sites. Manually blocking datacenter IPs has worked for a while, but it seems like the traffic is now coming either from residential IPs, or the IPs are just getting spoofed.
Real conundrum. I didn't want to have to set up Cloudflare for the site, and I have to wonder how good they are at catching this anyway, but it might just come to that.
Anyone else has been dealing with this?
#indieweb #PersonalWebsite #devops #bots #spam #AICrawlers
Stefan Bohacek@stefan@stefanbohacek.online (2026-07-22 11:39:52)
Yeah, I've read that this could be, in big part, caused by hijacked TVs.
Nice to see Samsung doing something about this.
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116960969908967244