I'm the owner of a botnet that's targeting my own site. AMA
So, title aside, the story is I'm on my fourth day of no-sleep, and willing to bow down to more enlightened minds than mine.
Now to the botnet part, my colleague made a couple of signatures for the company where we both work. Signatures get approved and all's fine and dandy since 2024 till now. This person placed the images on the company's webhost. The team grew larger, email's became the preferred method of communication and here's where we get to the botnet part. 8 pictures in the signature, times 90-100 people hammering the webhost with requests for the pictures composing the signature every couple of minutes or so are creating some sort of broadcast storm on the local network and a hard ban on our public ip's on the webhost.
Now, the best option in my humble opinion would be to filter the url's on the router, but I can't do that since it's managed by an old oc200 which doesn't play well with the router at the best of times and freezes when I really need it.
Question is, if I go ahead and remove the router from omada, leave it standalone and then try to filter the URL's for the pictures IE: sitename/picture_name.extension will it work?
Please help, as I'm at my wit's end.
