202.8.40.8
Neutral Activity
There is no recent abuse activity, or the IP address is whitelisted.
Whitelisted Subnet
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202.8.40.8 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
- Domain Name
- ahrefs.com
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States of America
- City
- Ashburn, Virginia
Abuse Reports
Total reports
24 from
11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇨🇦 Mediashaker |
(apache-useragents) Failed apache-useragents trigger with match [redacted] from 202.8.40.8 (US/United States/sardine008.ahrefs.net)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇧🇷 ICS Labs |
ICS Labs threat intelligence (ICS Feeds): Brute-Force. Last observed 2026-10-25 UTC.
|
Brute-Force | |
| 🇩🇪 ghostwarriors |
Webpage scraping
|
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack | |
| Anonymous |
IP matched detection query 20 more in short time bad rqs.
|
Brute-Force Web App Attack Hacking | |
| 🇮🇳 dineshskt4all |
|
IoT Targeted | |
| 🇹🇷 rtbh.com.tr |
list.rtbh.com.tr report: tcp/0
|
Brute-Force | |
| 🇩🇪 ghostwarriors |
Webpage scraping
|
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack | |
| 🇹🇷 rtbh.com.tr |
list.rtbh.com.tr report: tcp/0
|
Brute-Force | |
| 🇩🇪 rh24 |
(apache-useragents) Failed apache-useragents trigger with match [redacted] from 202.8.40.8 (US/United States/sardine008.ahrefs.net)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇹🇷 rtbh.com.tr |
list.rtbh.com.tr report: tcp/0
|
Brute-Force | |
| 🇩🇪 ghostwarriors |
Webpage scraping
|
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack | |
| 🇹🇷 rtbh.com.tr |
list.rtbh.com.tr report: tcp/0
|
Brute-Force | |
| 🇩🇪 ghostwarriors |
Webpage scraping
|
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack | |
| 🇹🇷 rtbh.com.tr |
list.rtbh.com.tr report: tcp/0
|
Brute-Force | |
| 🇩🇪 ghostwarriors |
Webpage scraping
|
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack |
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