Does anybody here know what this is?

yucchun

I left my website running on dev overnight, just woke up to these logs:

They seem to scroll up for a considerable amount of time, at one point there were so many requests at the same time that the website was taking ~1100ms to load GET requests.

Does anybody here know what this is, and how I could possibly stop it?

The web server is running on this system, so I don’t know why it lags so much. It has a 1 Gbps link:

Freek

Bots/automated scans trying to find (known) vulnerabilities to hack your VPS.

yucchun

@Freek said:
Bots/automated scans trying to find (known) vulnerabilities to hack your VPS.

I’m guessing there’s no way for me to avoid the checks themselves, just make sure that I haven’t fallen for any of the vulnerabilities?

Jab

You can block - by IP, by country, by URL, by user-agent... but it's pointless and sooner or later you will block something "legit".
Yes, make sure you are not out-of-date on websites and plugins.

imok

Use a firewall, if you are using WP, wordfence is a good option.

yucchun

I’m using nextjs, think I’ll geofence for suspicious IPs, or crank up CF security, thank you!

MikeA

A part of life with a public service.