Thousands of visits from an unusual country with unknown Operating System. Are they stealing my content?

Website, Application, Performance Security
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Hi,

During the last days, I received thousands of visits from an unusual country. My website if focused on a region, and there is no sense that visitors from such country are interested on the information I provide.

Additionally, 99% of the visits are with “unknown” Operating system and “unknown” browser.

I suspect that someone is trying to steal my contents. How can I make CloudFlare to block it? Thank you.

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I’d suggest to use the search as that topic has been covered more than once. Search for firewall rules and how to block countries.

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Thank you, Sandro.

I activated the Firewall Rule for the country, and found that I’m receiving hundreds of visits from the following ASN of Singapore:

HWCLOUDS-AS-AP HUAWEI CLOUDS

Should I worry about this visits? I’m not sure if such visits are real humans or bots.

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If it is just a single ASN, you can also block or challenge that only.

If you are not sure whether there are real visitors among them, you could start with a JavaScript challenge.

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Thank you, Sandro. I started to challenge such visitors with JS.

Edit: I stopped challenging them. I found that it is Aspiegel Petalbot
http://aspiegel.com/petalbot

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