202.8.41.79
Neutral Activity
There is no recent abuse activity, or the IP address is whitelisted.
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202.8.41.79 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)
- sardine335.ahrefs.net
- Domain Name
- ahrefs.com
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States of America
- City
- Ashburn, Virginia
Abuse Reports
Total reports
17 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇩🇪 ghostwarriors |
Webpage scraping
|
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack | |
| 🇧🇷 ICS Labs |
ICS Labs threat intelligence (ICS Feeds): Brute-Force, Exploited Host. Last observed 2026-10-17 UTC.
|
Brute-Force Exploited Host | |
| 🇩🇪 ghostwarriors |
Webpage scraping
|
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack | |
| 🇩🇪 ghostwarriors |
Webpage scraping
|
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack | |
| 🇫🇷 fastwarp |
DDoS / HTTP flood to hosting server from nginx access logs
|
DDoS Attack | |
| 🇹🇷 rtbh.com.tr |
list.rtbh.com.tr report: tcp/0
|
Brute-Force | |
| 🇩🇪 ghostwarriors |
Webpage scraping
|
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack | |
| 🇩🇪 ghostwarriors |
Webpage scraping
|
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot Web App Attack | |
| 🇦🇺 clapper |
(mod_security) mod_security (id:980001) triggered by 202.8.41.79 (US/United States/sardine335.ahrefs.net): 5 in the last 3600 secs; ID: Clar
|
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇪🇸 masterguru |
BAD BOT - Detected and Blocked.. Matched phrase "ahrefsbot" at REQUEST_HEADERS:user-agent. (1100000-123)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇮🇪 Jim Keir |
2025-11-04 13:43:28 202.8.41.79 Bad bot, blocking Mozilla/5.0
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇦🇺 clapper |
(mod_security) mod_security (id:980001) triggered by 202.8.41.79 (US/United States/sardine335.ahrefs.net): 5 in the last 3600 secs; ID: Clar
|
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇪🇸 masterguru |
BAD BOT - Detected and Blocked.. Matched phrase "ahrefsbot" at REQUEST_HEADERS:user-agent. (1100000-123)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇦🇺 clapper |
(mod_security) mod_security (id:980001) triggered by 202.8.41.79 (US/United States/sardine335.ahrefs.net): 5 in the last 3600 secs; ID: Clar
|
Brute-Force Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇪🇸 masterguru |
BAD BOT - Detected and Blocked.. Matched phrase "ahrefsbot" at REQUEST_HEADERS:user-agent. (1100000-123)
|
Bad Web Bot |
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