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#9816 Blocking malisious user based on same request

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Latest post by nicholas on Sunday, 03 April 2011 17:26 CDT

Sunday, 03 April 2011 14:21 CDT

ignitor
I have regular exceptions detected as Bad Behavior and RFIShield in log.
It repeats several times during 1-2 minutes, probably scheduled bots working. Request looks like: http://my_site//index.php?option=com_content&task=§ionid=&id=&mosConfig.absolute.path=http://bleury.fr/id/tt?_?
These requests are repeating from different IP's locating all over the world - proxies used, I guess, the're allways new.
So, IP blocking isn't useful, can I block it by this request. Will Anti-spam Bad Words do?
By the way WAF is working flawlessly on these exceptions but I'd like to bolster up security in advance.
Thanks.

Sunday, 03 April 2011 17:26 CDT

nicholas
That's an automated hacking script running against your site. You can't do virtually anything more than having WAF handle it and block it. What I would do is to enable the automatic IP ban, setting a ban of 15 minutes for an IP which causes more than 3 security exceptions every 2 minutes. That's a healthy time for a bot to be effectively stopped and have it skip your site and go try its dodgy attacks on a different site.

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