«There’s been something of an epidemic of malicious bots on the internet these days. You may have seen a post recently titled “Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face“, or “FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies“. Those are all happening to us, too. Surprise.»

TCRF has been getting DDoSed – Xkeeper's blog - https://blog.xkeeper.net/uncategorized/tcrf-has-been-getting-ddosed/

I'm getting #DDOS-ed by #AIcrawlers right now, even though I have a strict robots.txt.

Outgoing traffic suddenly increased (more or less 10 times regular traffic).

I have to block their crap using my firewall. That's NOT OK.

An interesting code hosting related downside of AI. #ai #ddos #web #scraping #copyright #code

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/27/open-source-devs-are-fighting-ai-crawlers-with-cleverness-and-vengeance/

Daten-hungrige KI-Bots zwingen (versehentlich) #foss Websites in die Knie #ki #ai #ddos #crawler https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/

Well, looks like #Belfius website is inaccessible. A bit painful for one of Belgium's largest banks.

After #DDOS attacks, #Blizzard rolls back Hardcore #WoW deaths for the first time

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/03/not-so-permadeath-blizzard-revives-hardcore-wow-characters-killed-by-ddos-attacks/

Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries - Software developer Xe Iaso reached a breaking point earlier this year when... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/ #machinelearning #biz⁢ #ddos #ai

Who could have guessed that an industry whose entire business model is based on theft would behave like malware attacks on the Internet?

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

DrayTek routers in the UK (and to a lesser extent elsewhere) are having A Bad Weekend. Lots of "spontaneous" reboots.

Also, DrayTek's UK website is unreachable. So this looks like a concerted attack.

Details are patchy, but ISP Review is tracking the problem: https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/03/broadband-isps-report-uk-connectivity-problems-with-vulnerable-draytek-routers.html

Applying firmware upgrades and disabling VPN services will help. Search your networks for indicators of compromise.

LLM crawlers continue to DDoS SourceHut | sr_ht status

｢ SourceHut continues to face disruptions due to aggressive LLM crawlers. We are continuously working to deploy mitigations. We have deployed a number of mitigations which are keeping the problem contained for now. However, some of our mitigations may impact end-users ｣

https://status.sr.ht/issues/2025-03-17-git.sr.ht-llms/

FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies.

https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/

LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.

#X hit with 3 outages in one day after hacking group Dark Storm Team claims responsibility for a #DDoS attack. Elon Musk suggests it could be a coordinated effort by a large group or even a nation. #X #Cyberattack #DarkStormTeam
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/who-are-the-dark-storm-team-hacking-group-claims-responsibility-for-cyberattackonx-article-118855760

Artificial intelligence companies are creating incredibly large scale denial of service situations on the infrastructure of Open Source Networks.

Now Network owners need to waste time on Finding ways of sending All These requests of the rogue AI insects to /dev/null

@altbot

#DDoS #DenialOfService #AI #LLM #KDE #crawler #programming #Alibaba #IP #FOSS #attack #OpenSource

https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/