It must be the first of the month, I have MSFT 20.xx.xx.xx bots all over my sites with .php attacks.
[edited by: not2easy at 4:25 pm (utc) on Jul 1, 2026] [edit reason] New month, new thread [/edit]
goodoldweb
4:36 am on Jul 29, 2026 (gmt 0)
@RedBar I've been having fun with these alternating-IP, one-page hit wonders for a while now. Turns out they're mostly AI training bots. Perplexity, DeepSeek and ChatGPT are the main culprits, sucking bandwidth with almost zero return.
I ended up building bot honeypots and redirecting the lot straight to hell. Works a treat: the bots get kicked the second they hit the server, main search engines stay whitelisted, and the logs are clean as a whistle.
It's a combination of PHP and JavaScript detection, the bots have distinct headers and screen sizes. Forget IPs; they alternate them by the second. Stat counter has become useless.
