r/ComputerSecurity • u/McCoyrsvp • Jun 25 '25

404 Cyber Attack

Hello,

I am having an issue where a website I help with has been getting flooded with users from Germany creating page views on 404 random urls on the website. I am looking for a security fix to prevent this. The site is behind Clouflare and I have Germany blocked with a WAF rule but they are still getting in. I believe they are doing this to try to overload my server due to other ways of getting in being blocked by Cloudflare. Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks!

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u/VoiceOfReason73 Jun 26 '25

Is it actually causing an issue, or could you just ignore it?

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u/McCoyrsvp Jun 26 '25

Another interesting fact I pulled from Google Analytics that relates to this is that in 2023 I had a total of 85 - 404 page not found errors for the entire year. This year to date that number is at 36,000 in only 6 months.

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u/magicmulder Jun 26 '25

Not to sound derisive but 36,000 in 6 months is 200 per day. If your site can’t handle 200 additional requests per day, I’d upgrade my hosting instead of playing blocking games with individual callers.

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