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AI and bots have officially taken over the internet (www.humansecurity.com)
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Automated traffic—all non-human internet traffic—is growing eight times faster than human traffic, AI-driven traffic—traffic generated by or on behalf of AI systems—is the fastest-growing category of internet traffic, and for the first time, AI systems are not just reading the web but transacting on it.

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[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

No wonder why some sites started to lag so hard in recent months.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yeah my favorite electronics hobby supplies website has started to take 2-10 seconds to load. Still great service and the best selection of modules in my region though. They should really throw Anubis in front of it.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Besides Anubis, is there any other tool that might work here?

I know about fail2ban and rate limiting configurations on Nginx level etc. But I mean, yes we have Anubis.. But aside of Anubis??

[–] JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

CrowdSec could probably catch a moderate amount of them, but that is really geared towards bad actors and malicious probing bots.

Fial2ban also wouldn't work at all here since they aren't trying brute force attacks, they are just using high bandwidth stealing as much public data from everything possible.

I think cloudflare is also making an alternative (or has already), but it is a tough problem.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 5 hours ago

Thanks! I use OPNsense, I do already have set several block lists actually like FireHOL 1,2,3 and 4.

I found the community plugin called os-crowdsec. I will try it set it up: https://docs.crowdsec.net/docs/next/getting_started/install_crowdsec_opnsense/

I want to avoid Cloudflare :).. And yes I know fail2ban will not catch these kind of AI bots or DDos attacks. Even if its a brute force attack, most bad actors are using a botnet with 100.000's of unique IPs.. Fail2ban would be no help either in that case.

EDIT: I also found another block list: https://threathive.net/. Which updates every 15 min. This one is great I think as well. So the list would be: https://threathive.net/hiveblocklist.txt