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Scrapers nowadays can use residential and mobile IPs, so banning by IP, even if actual malicious requests are coming from them, can also prevent actual unrelate
by SkiFire13 11mo ago
Scrapers nowadays can use residential and mobile IPs, so banning by IP, even if actual malicious requests are coming from them, can also prevent actual unrelated people from accessing your service.
- SoftTalker 11mo agoUnless you're running a very popular service, unlikely that a random residential IP would be both compromised by a malicious VPN and also trying to access your site legitimately.
- arbol 11mo agoLots of people have chrome extensions installed that use their connection like proxy so this is more common than you think
- SoftTalker 11mo agoCan you provide any examples of these extensions? I'm not doubting you, just curious.
- arbol 11mo agoThere's one mentioned here: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/data-stealing-chrome-extensions-impersonate-fortinet-youtube-vpns/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/data-stealing... Anyone who owns a chrome extension with 50k+ installs is regularly asked to sell it to people (myself included). The people who buy the extensions try to monetize them any way they can, like proxying traffic for malicious scrapers / attacks.
- snthd 11mo agoBright VPN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Data
- esseph 11mo agoBotnets are massive these days. Also a lot of big companies are paying for residential "proxies" to scrape traffic from for AI.
- theoreticalmal 11mo agoHow can a scraper get a mobile IP address?
- arbol 11mo agoJust one of many offering this service https://brightdata.com/proxy-types/mobile-proxies https://brightdata.com/proxy-types/mobile-proxies