202.8.40.195
Neutral Activity
There is no recent abuse activity, or the IP address is whitelisted.
Whitelisted Subnet
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202.8.40.195 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)
- sardine195.ahrefs.net
- Domain Name
- ahrefs.com
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States of America
- City
- Ashburn, Virginia
Abuse Reports
Total reports
15 from
12 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 Ahrefs Crawler.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇫🇷 Feelautom |
[FeelAutom Auto-Ban] HeadlessBrowser: /sw.js (Score: 200)
|
Hacking | |
| 🇧🇷 ICS Labs |
ICS Labs threat intelligence (ICS Feeds): Brute-Force, Exploited Host. Last observed 2026-11-04 UTC.
|
Brute-Force Exploited Host | |
| 🇩🇪 ghostwarriors |
Webpage scraping
|
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack | |
| 🇨🇦 Mediashaker |
(apache-useragents) Failed apache-useragents trigger with match [redacted] from 202.8.40.195 (US/United States/sardine195.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 | |
| 🇮🇳 dineshskt4all |
|
IoT Targeted | |
| 🇺🇸 TPI-Abuse |
|
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack | |
| 🇩🇪 Séfora Srl |
Bad user agents ignoring web crawling rules. Draing bandwidth - detected by Fail2Ban in plesk-apache-badbot jail
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇩🇪 rh24 |
(apache-useragents) Failed apache-useragents trigger with match [redacted] from 202.8.40.195 (US/United States/sardine195.ahrefs.net)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇩🇪 rh24 |
(apache-useragents) Failed apache-useragents trigger with match [redacted] from 202.8.40.195 (US/United States/sardine195.ahrefs.net)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇩🇪 rh24 |
(apache-useragents) Failed apache-useragents trigger with match [redacted] from 202.8.40.195 (US/United States/sardine195.ahrefs.net)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇪🇸 masterguru |
BAD BOT - Detected and Blocked.. Matched phrase "ahrefsbot" at REQUEST_HEADERS:user-agent. (1100000-122)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇫🇮 kumiko |
[2025-03-06 02:14:17] Known bad bot [Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/7.0; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/)]
|
Bad Web Bot Web App Attack | |
| Anonymous |
Ports: 80,443; Direction: 0; Trigger: LF_CUSTOMTRIGGER
|
Brute-Force SSH |
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