I have just taken the time to thoroughly read the following article

This article has led me to the conclusion that an Open{source} War will have to be waged against LLM large language model abusers of data collection.

The work of these bots is pure DDoS denial of service. An interesting set of offensive tools have been programmed and are already implemented. They have proven to be quite effective and are being refined into sophistication to literally work to knock these networks of bots offline, in a DOT MMORPG approach.

It is unthinkable that LLM bots steal our Open Source resources servers bandwidth and financial cashflow without serious repercussions!

WTF are LLM companies thinking? Even Meta has waged war against us!

LLM has waged a brutal war.

The Open Source Community is responding; even those at The Dark Side of the internet are making tools to assist everyone against Artificial Intelligence LLM DDoS attacks, which knock whole Open Source Networks offline, as we speak.

It doesn't matter if in the end it looks like a Terminator landscape globally on the IT scale. Open source will win. LLM will disappear...

Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance
—@TechCrunch

｢ It’s intended to “slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don’t respect ‘no crawl’ directives,” Cloudflare described in its blog post. Cloudflare said it feeds misbehaving AI crawlers “irrelevant content rather than extracting your legitimate website data.” ｣

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

ActivityPub is great to connect your WordPress blog to the Fediverse. However, depending on the activity, it is possible to create an accidental DDoS against the own server.

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https://epiph.yt/en/blog/2025/accidental-ddos-through-activitypub-plugin/

Had to adjust my .htaccess file today, because a SEO company had their bot trying to scrape my site. It didn't get further than the index-page, but it was comparable to a small DDoS, as in 5700 hits per minute.
Now let's hope the adjustment helps.
If it doesn't then their domain will be added to the firewall. And if they continue, I'll ask my lawyer to send a cease & desist. But for now: let's hope those motherfuckers stay away.

I'm having trouble figuring out what kind of botnet has been hammering our web servers over the past week. Requests come in from tens of thousands of addresses, just once or twice each (and not getting blocked by fail2ban), with different browser strings (Chrome versions ranging from 24.0.1292.0 - 108.0.5163.147) and ridiculous cobbled-together paths like /about-us/1-2-3-to-the-zoo/the-tiny-seed/10-little-rubber-ducks/1-2-3-to-the-zoo/the-tiny-seed/the-nonsense-show/slowly-slowly-slowly-said-the-sloth/the-boastful-fisherman/the-boastful-fisherman/brown-bear-brown-bear-what-do-you-see/the-boastful-fisherman/brown-bear-brown-bear-what-do-you-see/brown-bear-brown-bear-what-do-you-see/pancakes-pancakes/pancakes-pancakes/the-tiny-seed/pancakes-pancakes/pancakes-pancakes/slowly-slowly-slowly-said-the-sloth/the-tiny-seed

(I just put together a bunch of Eric Carle titles as an example. The actual paths are pasted together from valid paths on our server but in invalid order, with as many as 32 subdirectories.)

Has anyone else been seeing this and do you have an idea what's behind it?

So apart from the attempt to open a lot of Facebook accounts using my domain, my site has also been under sporadic DDoS attacks. I hope you don't have too much trouble connecting at times.

And no, I have no idea who I ticked off now.

Nachdem diverse #ki #ai #crawler besonders respektvoll mit den öffentlichen Ressourcen von Open Source Projekten umgehen, habe ich mich dazu entschlossen eben diese auszusperren. Wir hatten in der Vergangenheit crawls, die im #monitoring als #ddos gewertet wurden.

Diverse AS erfreuen sich nun einem dauerhaften 429, einige wenige die es für alle kaputt machen…

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/

Personally I don't mind my code being ingested to train #LLM models. Freedoms 1 and 3 of the four essential software freedoms allow for study and redistribution of modified versions of code. Of course those freedoms don't allow for stripping the license obligations from derivative code. They also don't give permission to for #scraper bots to #DDoS our core development infrastructure by aggressively spamming git servers with requests: https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/ #git #floss #foss #robots

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.

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.

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/