BLOCKING NOT WORKING…

  • Resolved Marc

    (@lipctech)


    7 years ago

    From my stats, I see that my website is being hit and flooded with spam bots and the link is:

    s3.amazonaws.com/mapwatch/scrape/2019-06-02/google_scout…and other numbers and letters following this.

    I went into blocking in Wordfence and used custom pattern like this:

    *s3.amazonaws.com as the referrer
    *s3.amazonaws.com as the host
    *amazonaws.com as the referrer
    *amazonaws.com as the host
    amazonaws.com as the host

    and I thought this would block any links starting with the above, but I keep seeing links like that every five minutes and wordfence is not stopping it.

    Why is wordfence not working and not blocking that?

    Thank you!!!

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  • wfdave

    (@wfdave)

    7 years ago

    Hi @lipctech,

    Can you take a screenshot of what your live traffic looks like? (Expand one of the rows to see more details)

    Something like this is what I want to see: https://i.imgur.com/G8p2uq8.png

    Dave

    Thread Starter Marc

    (@lipctech)

    7 years ago

    Sure, thank you!!!

    View post on imgur.com

    3 screenshots one from awstats, one from wordfence live traffic and one from my analytics stats.

    The bot from china, that is an ip I alread blocked permanently and gets 503.

    Thank you, appreciate it.

    Thread Starter Marc

    (@lipctech)

    7 years ago

    View post on imgur.com

    and

    View post on imgur.com

    Thread Starter Marc

    (@lipctech)

    7 years ago

    Any news please?

    Thank you!

    WFSupport

    (@wfsupport)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    I apologize for the late reply. I did some digging into this and it looks like this is a service (possibly belonging to amazon?) that scrapes sites looking for price comparisons.
    See this thread for reference:
    https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/amazon-scraping-our-website/400500/11

    I haven’t found a way to block that exactly, though the thread above does say that it respects robots.txt, so you might try creating that file and adding the user agent you see in live traffic into it. What you are doing is block amazonaws which is the hosting service/cloud provider which may or may not work.

    I reached out to MAPWatch but have not heard back from them as to how to properly get them to stop hitting your site. This is the link to their facebook page where you can try contacting them. I also found their contact information on the site.

    The screenshot showing the IP blocked in China doesn’t seem to be part of the issue. That seems to be a malicious attempt to login using XML-RPC that was blocked by the Wordfence Security Network. When an IP tries to get into a Wordfence protected site too many times it makes the list and is blocked on all sites that have enabled that option.

    I hope this helps.

    Tim

    Thread Starter Marc

    (@lipctech)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Thank you very much! Appreciate it.

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