202.8.43.234
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202.8.43.234 is on our whitelist as Ahrefs Crawler via the subnet 202.8.40.0/22.
- ISP
- Ahrefs Crawler B
- Usage Type
- Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit
- ASN
- AS140577
- Hostname(s)
- proxy-us002.ahrefs.net
- Domain Name
- ahrefs.com
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States of America
- City
- Ashburn, Virginia
No reports in the last 60 days
202.8.43.234 has been reported 185 times. The most recent report is from .
The full history is preserved below and remains searchable. A 0% score reflects the absence of recent activity, but this is not a guarantee that earlier reports were invalid. Abuse confidence score decays, naturally, over time, when the abusive activity stops.
Abuse Reports
| Reporter | IoA Timestamp (UTC) | Comment | Categories |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 masterguru |
BAD BOT - Detected and Blocked.. Matched phrase "ahrefssiteaudit" at REQUEST_HEADERS:user-agent. (1100000-169)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| Anonymous |
Automated report (2026-02-02T07:17:49-05:00). Scraper detected.
|
Open Proxy VPN IP Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇪🇸 seoxan.es |
Intento de SQL injection detectado en request URI
|
SQL Injection | |
| 🇹🇷 rtbh.com.tr |
list.rtbh.com.tr report: tcp/0
|
Brute-Force | |
| 🇩🇪 DocNetzwerk |
(apache-useragents) Failed apache-useragents trigger with match [redacted] from 202.8.43.234 (US/United States/proxy-us002.ahrefs.net)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇪🇸 librebit |
Brute force
|
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 | |
| 🇩🇪 DocNetzwerk |
(apache-useragents) Failed apache-useragents trigger with match [redacted] from 202.8.43.234 (US/United States/proxy-us002.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 | |
| 🇩🇪 rh24 |
(apache-useragents) Failed apache-useragents trigger with match [redacted] from 202.8.43.234 (US/United States/proxy-us002.ahrefs.net)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇺🇸 Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium |
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇩🇪 rh24 |
(apache-useragents) Failed apache-useragents trigger with match [redacted] from 202.8.43.234 (US/United States/proxy-us002.ahrefs.net)
|
Bad Web Bot | |
| 🇪🇸 librebit |
Brute force
|
Brute-Force |
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