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### block AspiegelBot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AspiegelBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* "-" [F,L]2025-07-21: We have updated our Privacy Policy. Thanks to Vietnamese blackhat SEO wannabee DDoS:ing forums with Russian malware developed by Aleksandr Ryanchenko (Александр Рябченко) aka Alexandru Robu for automatic registrations and spam posts, this forum is now manually moderated to ban clueless script kiddies.
DOS attack by AspiegelBot crashed the forum for 30 minutes
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Our forum was down 30 minutes thanks to AspiegelBot DOS attack with almost 100,000 HTTP requests today. The site run out of sql connections. If the same happens to you, here is how you can block the bot by adding the following lines to your .htaccess file in your Apache web server document root directory:
I noticed earlier how aggressive the crawling was without adequate delays between requests. Crashing websites like this will probably get the bot widely blocked rendering Huawei's search engine pretty useless.
