Comment on Server Maintenance - Feb 14 at 22:00 UTC
SatouKazuma@ani.social 1 week agoWhoa. Was there anything else going down in that time frame? I’d be interested to have some profile on the attacker. Do you have any information about where the majority of ani.social’s traffic came from before that?
hitagi@ani.social 1 week ago
Nothing else went down. After blocking the ASN, I found out that they’ve been scraping the site from Hong Kong too but not as aggressively with Singapore. Or rather, the Hong Kong servers are more consistent but not as frequent (I don’t know how best to describe it lol). The only info I have is the ASN which points to the Alibaba Group. It also doesn’t disclose what it is other than “Microsoft Edge Windows” which is not very nice in my opinion.
Cloudflare only gives me logs for the past 24 hours but most of ani.social’s traffic comes from other instances federating in (unsurprisingly, Lemmy.World is #1).
Some graphs if you're interested:
Image The green line is Singapore. This happened a few hours after the crash the other night. Image This is a closer look of the spike. The lines are 5 of their IP addresses. You can see that they’re dormant then suddenly they start hammering the instance with requests. Image These are the top countries for the past 6 hours that use GET after filtering out Alibaba. United States is high because they have a lot of web crawlers/scrapers like Open AI (at least they’re honest) but I might block the AI ones too.
SatouKazuma@ani.social 1 week ago
I’d almost be concerned that it’s a nation state at that point.