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Claudebot attack

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Since today my board has 150 bots online, almost all are claudebot. I can't find anything about it on this forum yet.

I've tried to add the following line to my .htaccess file, but without success. Anyone who can help?

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BrowserMatchNoCase "claudebot" bad_bot
Last edited by Mick on Wed May 01, 2024 8:09 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Claudebot attack

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You can try robots.txt to stop any AI bots, whether or not they respect it is a different thing. You could also ask your host as they may have something in place for this kind of bot.
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Re: Claudebot attack

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The Block Bad Bots HTACCESS I have on my extensions board might block it as it is, and/or you can add Claudebot to the list of blocked bots
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Re: Claudebot attack

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This definitely seems like a new one and I'm seeing many instances on my boards.

What does your .htaccess do with bad_bot?

Here's the tail end of mine that denies anything defined as bad_bot

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# 28-Mar-24, P_I, another one to banish
BrowserMatchNoCase "claudebot" bad_bot
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from env=bad_bot
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Re: Claudebot attack

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P_I wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:00 pm What does your .htaccess do with bad_bot?
Its a HTACCESS script by Jeff Star

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Re: Claudebot attack

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HiFiKabin wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:08 pm
P_I wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:00 pm What does your .htaccess do with bad_bot?
Its a HTACCESS script by Jeff Star
Our posts crossed. I was asking the OP.

I have posted this a number of times that I've been using Blocking aggressive Chinese crawlers/scrapers/bots - John Large .co.uk, particularly this version.
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Re: Claudebot attack

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This is in my .htaccess

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BrowserMatchNoCase "libwww-perl" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "wget" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "LieBaoFast" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "Mb2345Browser" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "zh-CN" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "MicroMessenger" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "zh_CN" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "Kinza" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "Bytespider" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "Baiduspider" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "Sogou" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "Datanyze" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "AspiegelBot" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "adscanner" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "serpstatbot" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "spaziodat" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "undefined" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "claudebot" bad_bot
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from env=bad_bot
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Re: Claudebot attack

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P_I wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:00 pm Here's the tail end of mine that denies anything defined as bad_bot

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# 28-Mar-24, P_I, another one to banish
BrowserMatchNoCase "claudebot" bad_bot
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from env=bad_bot
Thx!

I had the same problem today, and this solved it.
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deninho32 wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:52 pm This is in my .htaccess
That looks correct. Are you still seeing claudebot instances active on your board?
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Re: Claudebot attack

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Yes, even more now.

Edit: I've added them to the following lines and that solved it.

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##spammers
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AhrefsBot/6.1|Ahrefs|Baiduspider|BLEXBot|SemrushBot|claudebot|YandexBot/3.0|Bytespider|YandexBot|Mb2345Browser|LieBaoFast|zh-CN|MicroMessenger|zh_CN|Kinza|Datanyze|serpstatbot|spaziodati|OPPO\sA33|AspiegelBot|PetalBot [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [F,L]
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Re: Claudebot attack

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Yes, thank you!

I block bad bots from my HAProxy load balancer. It's configured to read a "bad bot" text file.

I added claudebot to the file and phpBB went from over 100 bots to zero.
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Re: Claudebot attack

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cabot wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:28 pm
P_I wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:00 pm Here's the tail end of mine that denies anything defined as bad_bot

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# 28-Mar-24, P_I, another one to banish
BrowserMatchNoCase "claudebot" bad_bot
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from env=bad_bot
Thx!

I had the same problem today, and this solved it.
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Re: Claudebot attack

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P_I wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:00 pm This definitely seems like a new one and I'm seeing many instances on my boards.

What does your .htaccess do with bad_bot?

Here's the tail end of mine that denies anything defined as bad_bot

Code: Select all

# 28-Mar-24, P_I, another one to banish
BrowserMatchNoCase "claudebot" bad_bot
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from env=bad_bot
This works perfectly. After restarting Apache of course.
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Re: Claudebot attack

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They train their AI and rape your website while dong it. :lol:

"helpful, honest, and harmless AI system" as they say it is.

We can skew their training by blocking access to the data. ;)
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