| ▲ | yabones 2 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Every server with port 80/443 open has thousands of hits a day from random boxes looking for wordpress login pages. The only new thing is that they're pretending to be a different type of annoying bot. There's a new layer of sophistication and subterfuge, but it's the same junk traffic we've always dealt with. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | drewnick an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Think about how many webmaster and business owners' egos are stroked by all the traffic they are getting, when in actuality they are often just serving thousands of bots. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | TZubiri an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opening port 80 and realizing the world is an anarchic warzone is a canonic rite of initiation for otherwise innocent backend devs and sysadmins. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | gavinhking 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Another interesting thing here is the paths they're targeting, many are for newish AI coding tools | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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