Gitlab Project Hit by Spambot

Re:Gitlab Project Hit by Spambot by f430 on Monday February 08, 2021 @12:42PM (#26067625)

My solution was to block IP addresses from the following regions who were never our target customers anyways:

India, Midde East, Turkey, Russia, China, South East Asia (except Singapore), All of Eastern Europe, Africa and island nations.

It immediately reduced the amount of fraud and spam. Sure you might miss out on the <1% of your revenues but its a tradeoff I'm okay with.

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Re:Gitlab Project Hit by Spambot by TheCapeGreek on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @12:08AM (#26074123)

Is the African and island nation traffic that significant and fraudulent?

Having worked in the South African tech scene and for a UK company, every spam/dos detection I've seen has been from everywhere you mention except Africa and island nations.

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Re:Gitlab Project Hit by Spambot by f430 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @02:18PM (#26081425)

not sure what you are trying to say here. Simply blocking all sources of traffic which we don't do business with has been beneficial in stopping spam and frauds.

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Re:Gitlab Project Hit by Spambot by bigint on Monday February 08, 2021 @09:53PM (#26073335)

Rude!

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Re:Gitlab Project Hit by Spambot by f430 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @02:17PM (#26081409)

Please explain why you think its rude to block countries thats responsible for most of the spam and fraud.

or is this another one of your alt nick you periodically sign in from?

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Re:Gitlab Project Hit by Spambot by sergiotapia on Monday February 08, 2021 @01:05PM (#26067891)

Yep, totally agree. We blocked China (a country we do zero business in) and saw a drastic double digit percentage decrease.

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Re:Gitlab Project Hit by Spambot by f430 on Monday February 08, 2021 @08:46PM (#26072852)

weird. not sure why you and my comment is being downvoted.

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