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Anubis is designed to protect websites from AI scraper bots, Anubis primarily focuses on parameters like the user agent sent with the request and looks for oddities in the connection. “Known good” and harmless clients are always accepted, and “Known bad” clients are always denied. Now the same tool is used to get protection from a DDoS attack: https://fabulous.systems/posts/2025/05/anubis-saved-our-websites-from-a-ddos-attack/

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[-] nixCraft@mastodon.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

We need mod_Anubis directly added to Nginx or Apache with configuration options like allowing or blocking specific URLs, IPs, CIDRs, or even data center ranges like AWS. additionally, customization for traps and stuff like that. Freeloader AI companies abuse open-source projects, small businesses, blogs, forums, and artists without giving back to communities or individuals. They are making billions while people are left with server bandwidth bills.

[-] lnklnx@social.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I'd love this. My apache/fail2ban config is just chasing its tail since the IP addresses keep moving. I block every IP I find and get new ones the next day.

[-] pa@zusammenhalt.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

@nixCraft@mastodon.social the JWT should be validated in the reverse proxy. Anubis would be a perfect authorization endpoint to point to when required. But I think the logic should be present in more server side frameworks. PHP for the masses, container image for classic anubis and embeddable libraries for rust or java services…

[-] crisl_at@mastodon.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I wonder if @CrowdSec@infosec.exchange would be helpful in this case.

[-] abnv@fantastic.earth 1 points 2 weeks ago

@nixCraft@mastodon.social There exists https://github.com/simon987/ngx_http_js_challenge_module, a mod for Nginx that works similar to Anubis.

[-] asl@mastodon.launay.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I would love to see an haproxy module

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