the elusive majestic-12 bot

[Canuckster]

[Canuckster]

https://www.majestic12.co.uk/

[Canuckster]

i would block it, it seems to be a data miner that a lot of people abuse, i dont know enough about this end of the technical stuff, but it seems shady as fuck.

[Canuckster]

http://www.spambotsecurity.com/forum/vi ... f=9&t=1021

[Edge Guerrero]

- He is like rare like a three long beaked echidnas!

[Vutulaki-san]

http://www.spambotsecurity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1021

As far as I know, most majestic 12 bots you will see are fake. My findings...

1. Most are fake, because the original bot is a botnet, and this helps hackers hide their botnets.

2. I have never heard of anyone visiting a site with a referrer of said bot.

3. Data shows that they require EXPLICIT robots.txt instructions (their name, and ignore the all bot *) to not spider certain pages. I guess they feel above all other bots, and do not follow the group.

4. Since there is no central brain to it, they have been known to hit sites like a mad jackhammer, with no throttling.

5. On http://www.projecthoneypot.org/board/re ... =131&t=131 They say if they get a 403, then they do not continue to visit a site. So one of these must be true:
If the first one you caught was real, all the others are fake.
A few fakes, then a real, then all the rest are fake.
All but the last one you caught is a fake.
Every single one of them is fake (Who do you know that uses Majestic 12 on their computer?)
The manager of the Majestic 12 project is blowing sugar coated smoke up our collective a$$es, and needs to be kicked out on principle.

[Winnson]

get adblock.

adblock - google it and get it.

If you're really scared, get ghostery too. I'm not that scared anymore.

adblock your life.

[Winnson]

and run CCleaner. Keep your ship tight.

[Daglord]

http://www.spambotsecurity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1021

As far as I know, most majestic 12 bots you will see are fake. My findings...

1. Most are fake, because the original bot is a botnet, and this helps hackers hide their botnets.

2. I have never heard of anyone visiting a site with a referrer of said bot.

3. Data shows that they require EXPLICIT robots.txt instructions (their name, and ignore the all bot *) to not spider certain pages. I guess they feel above all other bots, and do not follow the group.

4. Since there is no central brain to it, they have been known to hit sites like a mad jackhammer, with no throttling.

5. On http://www.projecthoneypot.org/board/re ... =131&t=131 They say if they get a 403, then they do not continue to visit a site. So one of these must be true:
If the first one you caught was real, all the others are fake.
A few fakes, then a real, then all the rest are fake.
All but the last one you caught is a fake.
Every single one of them is fake (Who do you know that uses Majestic 12 on their computer?)
The manager of the Majestic 12 project is blowing sugar coated smoke up our collective a$$es, and needs to be kicked out on principle.

I have no idea what that means, but it sounds like great investigative work.

[Daglord]

nice work canuck !! 8-)