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Apache Access Log Indicates DOS Attack? Or any other attack? [duplicate]

Below is my apache access log. 175.139.240.59 - - [28/Jul/2017:23:42:50 +0000] "HEAD http://xx.xxx.xx.xxx:80/mysql/admin/ HTTP/1.1" 301 - ... 175.139.240.59 - - [28/Jul/2017:23:42:50 +0000] "HEAD ...
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Strange get request to my web server [duplicate]

I recently set up a python-bottle web server for a school project to essentially open my Garage Door remotely over the internet. Recently I saw the logs had a strange get request and was wondering if ...
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Weird GET request on internet facing Nginx [duplicate]

I spun up an internet facing nginx server in AWS and the logs started showing weird get requests with a search engine's spider as user agent. 172.31.43.193 - - [19/Aug/2020:20:09:19 +0000] "GET /...
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Weird GET request to /proxychecker/check.cgi [duplicate]

I started running a flask application on a raspberry pi last night. It was not hiding behind apache or nginx, served the requests by itself. I set up my router to forward http traffic towards it as ...
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php-fpm.log shows a mass of unusual attempts to open primary script with random filenames [duplicate]

I recently happened to inspect my php-fpm.log and found a lot of suspicious activity that looks like malicious attempts to get access to my host. Here're some of the logs: [07-Oct-2018 22:01:31] ...
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Why there are some weird requests to my web hosting [duplicate]

I was doing my plesk hosting logs checking for web and database development. Somehow, I had seen some weird ip trying to communicate to hosting. Wonder what is the purpose of these anonymous requests. ...
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CentOS payload injection attempts? [duplicate]

My PHP logs have been flooding with seemingly random attempts to access scripts and software which isn't installed on my server. At first, All the attempts came from a single IP, I was using ...
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What are these access requests? [duplicate]

So I have a series of these requests in my log and was wondering what they were? It appears malicious but no harm has been done. Can anyone confirm? - Any insight or reading material etc that would ...
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Server directory bruteforcing [duplicate]

Recently I saw hundreds of strange requests from different ip addresses in my server logs. These requests were trying to bruteforce directories for example: GET /admin/admin.php 404 GET /admin/...
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Concerning GET request in logs

I have a Django application running on a Digital Ocean Ubuntu server. I am using NGINX and Daphne to serve the application because I am using Django Channels. My websockets keep crashing, and I ...
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Visitors logs show \x80w\x01\x03\x01 the HNAP1

Can anyone tell me what this means? I'm on Bluehost with a shared server. [ip]71.63.199.72 [url]HNAP1 [size] 134 [status] 401 [method]GET [protocol] HTTP/1.1 [referring url] My server address [ip]71....
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Protecting server from bogus HTTP Requests

What would be the recommended approach to block those typical bogus HTTP requests that the server gets bombarded with? Also has this attack/nuisance been named yet or is it generalized as Bot Activity?...
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There seems to have been an attempt to attack my website [duplicate]

I am using PHP as a server side language. And I don't use CMS or Framework. From the nginx log the website attack seems obvious. I wonder what kind of attack the attacker attempted. The attacker ...
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Too much requests on the Nginx Server [closed]

I'm receiving a lot of requests like these [server] zcat access*gz | grep 404 | awk '{print $1" "$7}' | sort | uniq -c | less : 2 103.193.242.137 /MCLi.php 1 103.193.242.137 /Moxin.PHP ...
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Does it make sense to configure the web server to deny obviously malicious requests?

I have a Ruby on Rails app behind Nginx. Every once in a while I see requests like GET /phpmyadmin or GET /wp-login.php. Since I don't have those tools installed, it's obvious that those are from ...
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