17.166.23.140
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.
17.166.23.140 is on our whitelist as Apple via the subnet 17.0.0.0/8.
- ISP
- Apple Inc.
- Usage Type
- Commercial
- ASN
- AS714
- Hostname(s)
- 17-166-23-140.applebot.apple.com
- Domain Name
- apple.com
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States of America
- City
- Seattle, Washington
Abuse Reports
Total reports
20 from
9 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 | |
| 🇪🇸 librebit |
Brute force
|
Brute-Force | |
| 🇩🇪 conseilgouz |
vee-88 : Bloc AI bots=>/robots.txt(Applebot)
|
Hacking | |
| 🇪🇸 librebit |
Brute force
|
Brute-Force | |
| 🇧🇷 ICS Labs |
ICS Labs threat intelligence (ICS Feeds): Brute-Force. Last observed 2026-11-11 UTC.
|
Brute-Force | |
| 🇩🇪 ghostwarriors |
Webpage scraping
|
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack | |
| 🇩🇪 ksol-hostmaster |
2026/11/09 22:33:27 [error] 35899#101794: *3455443 limiting requests, excess: 0.995 by zone "crawler", client: 17.166.23.140, server: ksol.io, request: "GET /en/blog/ HTTP/2.0", host: "ksol.io"
...
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇪🇸 masterguru |
BAD BOT - Detected and Blocked.. Matched phrase "applebot" at REQUEST_HEADERS:user-agent. (1100000-122)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇯🇵 Short-legs-Spider |
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇪🇸 masterguru |
BAD BOT - Detected and Blocked.. Matched phrase "applebot" at REQUEST_HEADERS:user-agent. (1100000-122)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇪🇸 masterguru |
BAD BOT - Detected and Blocked.. Matched phrase "applebot" at REQUEST_HEADERS:user-agent. (1100000-122)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇪🇸 masterguru |
BAD BOT - Detected and Blocked.. Matched phrase "applebot" at REQUEST_HEADERS:user-agent. (1100000-122)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇫🇷 claude CALVET |
gee-88 : Blocage Robots IA=>/index.php?view=article&id=14:test-2&catid=2&modjemcal_id=113&modjemcal_month=9&modjemcal_year=2027(Applebot)
|
Hacking | |
| 🇪🇸 masterguru |
BAD BOT - Detected and Blocked.. Matched phrase "applebot" at REQUEST_HEADERS:user-agent. (1100000-122)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇩🇪 jbcrn |
|
Bad Web Bot Web App Attack |
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