Re: Server Traffic - Anybody know the name of this type attack?

Andreas Stieger via openSUSE Users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.general
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Hello David,

On 2026-08-26 07:00, David C Rankin wrote:
> [...] hammered by rotating IP addresses [...] trying random .php pages.

These are not random, but names of known previously vulnerable PHP scripts.

> So this looks like some type of attack.

No, this is just "welcome to the internet". You are not special.

>  The only annoying part is those generated over a megabyte of http/php 
> error log entries in that period.

Look into logrotate and compression.

Andreas
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