Good morning...
I have recently checked my referrers logs this morning and I have discovered something really strange.
I can see that a number of referrers have come from Google and some from Bing... A number from Russian domains as well.
What I have found is that there have been a number of entries from what look like really random characters or are something else, and I am unsure what they are. My first thought is perhaps a hacking attempt, but I cannot say for certain. This is why I have come here for clarification on what I am seeing. I will upload one screenshot, that will give a small sample of what is there. I have at least 9 FULL pages of only these entries, they are all similar and are all from the EXACT same IP address. One that appears to be a "yourserver.de" IP located in the general area of Frankfurt. For the time being, I have placed a "hard ban" on the IP in question so it cannot even load anything on my website, and instead just gets our own "403 - Permission Denied" page instead.
This image above may explain why I am baffled as to what is going on... This all happened in a single day, 25th July 2021.
Over the course of roughly 12 minutes 16:09 to 16:21, I have around 220 entries that are very similar to the ones in the above screenshot...
Can anyone clarify this please, as I am rather baffled.