17.166.21.78
Neutral Activity
There is no recent abuse activity, or the IP address is whitelisted.
Whitelisted Subnet
Whitelisted netblocks are typically owned by trusted entities, such as Google or Microsoft who may use them for search engine spiders. However, these same entities sometimes also provide cloud servers and mail services which are easily abused. Pay special attention when trusting or distrusting these IPs.
17.166.21.78 is on our whitelist as Apple via the subnet 17.0.0.0/8.
- ISP
- Apple Inc.
- Usage Type
- Commercial
- ASN
- AS714
- Hostname(s)
- 17-166-21-78.applebot.apple.com
- Domain Name
- apple.com
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States of America
- City
- Seattle, Washington
Abuse Reports
Total reports
13 from
8 distinct
reporters
First reported
Most recent report
Recent reports
We have received reports of abusive activity from this IP address within the last week.
This IP is on our whitelist as Apple.
Shared services like this are often reported for traffic that is not abuse, so review the reports
before blocking.
| Reporter | IoA Timestamp (UTC) | Comment | Categories |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇪🇸 masterguru |
BAD BOT - Detected and Blocked.. Matched phrase "applebot" at REQUEST_HEADERS:user-agent. (1100000-122)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| Anonymous |
FortiWeb WAF: 4 attacks detected. Threat Score: 3391500. Types: Client Management(2), HTTP Protocol Constraints(2). Origin: United States.
|
Web App Attack | |
| 🇩🇪 klaus_ph |
[Sat Oct 31 13:47:11.815526 2026] [ssl:info] [pid 255865] [client 17.166.21.78:40754] AH01964: Connection to child 7 established (server bga.vufind.net:443)
...
|
Hacking | |
| 🇩🇪 klaus_ph |
[Wed Oct 28 18:14:43.157601 2026] [ssl:info] [pid 171330] [client 17.166.21.78:54126] AH01964: Connection to child 343 established (server bga.vufind.net:443)
...
|
Hacking | |
| 🇪🇸 masterguru |
BAD BOT - Detected and Blocked.. Matched phrase "applebot" at REQUEST_HEADERS:user-agent. (1100000-122)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇫🇷 IRISIO |
scans/SQL injection/spam posts : 7 queries
|
Web App Attack SQL Injection | |
| 🇺🇸 TPI-Abuse |
|
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack | |
| 🇫🇷 bigorre.org |
Excessive crawling : exceed crawl-delay defined in robots.txt
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇫🇷 bigorre.org |
Excessive crawling : exceed crawl-delay defined in robots.txt
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇩🇪 bancix |
Heimdall NIDS: Automatic ban triggered. Reason: RST_LIMIT_EXCEEDED (8/8)
|
Port Scan | |
| 🇩🇪 jbcrn |
|
Bad Web Bot Web App Attack | |
| 🇩🇪 jbcrn |
|
Bad Web Bot Web App Attack | |
| 🇩🇪 jbcrn |
|
Bad Web Bot Web App Attack |
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