202.8.40.136

Neutral Activity There is no recent abuse activity, or the IP address is whitelisted. Whitelisted Subnet

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Abuse Confidence Score
0% Low Risk
18 reports
9 reporters · latest 3 weeks ago

202.8.40.136 is on our whitelist as Ahrefs Crawler via the subnet 202.8.40.0/22.

ISP
Ahrefs Crawler A
Usage Type
Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit
ASN
AS140577
Hostname(s)
sardine136.ahrefs.net
Domain Name
ahrefs.com
Country
🇺🇸 United States of America
City
Ashburn, Virginia
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Abuse Reports

Total reports
18 from 9 distinct reporters
First reported
Most recent report
Last 60 days
Top reporter locations 🇨🇦 Canada 2 🇨🇿 Czechia 1 🇩🇪 Germany 1
Most common categories Bad Web Bot 3 Web App Attack 2 Brute-Force 2 Hacking 1
Old reports The most recent abuse report for this IP address is from . This IP is on our whitelist as Ahrefs Crawler.
Reporter IoA Timestamp (UTC) Comment Categories
🇨🇦 Mediashaker
(apache-useragents) Failed apache-useragents trigger with match [redacted] from 202.8.40.136 (US/United States/sardine136.ahrefs.net)
Bad Web Bot
🇨🇦 Mediashaker
(apache-useragents) Failed apache-useragents trigger with match [redacted] from 202.8.40.136 (US/United States/sardine136.ahrefs.net)
Bad Web Bot
Anonymous
IP matched detection query 20 more in short time bad rqs.
Brute-Force Web App Attack Hacking
🇩🇪 ghostwarriors
Webpage scraping
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack
🇩🇪 ghostwarriors
Webpage scraping
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack
🇨🇦 Mediashaker
(apache-useragents) Failed apache-useragents trigger with match [redacted] from 202.8.40.136 (US/United States/sardine136.ahrefs.net)
Bad Web Bot
🇩🇪 ghostwarriors
Webpage scraping
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack
🇩🇪 ghostwarriors
Webpage scraping
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack
🇿🇦 Tokolosh Hunters
AutoBlockWindow-Known bad useragent query-2026-02-07 02:08:56
Bad Web Bot
🇮🇪 Jim Keir
Bad Web Bot
🇦🇺 MAGIC
VM1 Bad user agents ignoring web crawling rules. Draing bandwidth
DDoS Attack Bad Web Bot
🇦🇺 MAGIC
VM1 Bad user agents ignoring web crawling rules. Draing bandwidth
DDoS Attack Bad Web Bot
🇫🇮 kumiko
[2025-03-05 22:41:44] Known bad bot [Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/7.0; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/)]
Bad Web Bot Web App Attack
🇦🇺 MAGIC
VM1 Bad user agents ignoring web crawling rules. Draing bandwidth
DDoS Attack Bad Web Bot
🇦🇺 MAGIC
VM1 Bad user agents ignoring web crawling rules. Draing bandwidth
DDoS Attack Bad Web Bot

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