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You were getting 1k rps, and each request was from an unique IP? So after an hour you got hit by 3.6M different IPs? And all from uncorrelated /16s? That seems
by redox99 5mo ago
You were getting 1k rps, and each request was from an unique IP? So after an hour you got hit by 3.6M different IPs? And all from uncorrelated /16s? That seems hard to believe. Not that I don't believe you, it's just hard for me to grasp that whoever was scraping you had such a large and distributed swarm.
- tardedmeme 5mo agoThis is called rotating residential proxy service. You can buy it off grey market sites that are probably getting it from botnet operators. It costs about $2-$5 per GB.
- redox99 5mo agoInteresting, that definitely seems to be it.