The Day I Logged 1 In Every 2000 Public IPv4: Visualizing The AI Scraper DDoS
The article discusses the author's experience with a significant increase in web scraper attacks on their websites. On April 24, 2026, the author recorded an unprecedented wave of scraping, with over 2 million unique IPs hitting their server. The author highlights the challenges of managing these attacks and the measures taken to mitigate their impact.
- ▪On April 24, 2026, the author's VPS sustained a continuous wave of over 4,000 requests per minute from web scrapers.
- ▪The author recorded 2,040,670 unique IPs hitting their sites, with 99.77% being IPv4 addresses.
- ▪The most active IP address during the attack made 150,483 requests, while the majority of requests came from IPv4 addresses.
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| Canonical URL | https://vulpinecitrus.info/blog/one-in-every-2000-ipv4-visualizing-ddos-ai-web-scrapers/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:07:16 -0500 |
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The Day I Logged 1 In Every 2000 Public IPv4: Visualizing The AI Scraper DDoS 2026-04-28 (Tue) ; by ~lux ; 1167 words ; about 6 minutes ; #ai scrapers; #ddos; #dataviz; #iocaine; In an attempt to grasp the magnitude of web scraper attacks against my websites, i went the way of visualizing. i don’t think i need to explain to you, dear reader, why web massive web scraping is a pain in the ass. This is not going to be a post as researched or informational as that first one. i’ve been fighting web scrapers as much as i could for almost two years now, and the battle is getting tough. Some tools, like Iocaine (thanks Algernon for the work you put into it) help a lot by at least sparing my backend from gratuitous amounts of requests (sometimes multiple dozens per second, each completely random).
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