Resources
Guides, observations and data on server log analysis
Guides on log analysis, and dated observations from the sites Salience monitors.
Observations
ObservationOpenAI shifted from live reads to crawlingVerified ChatGPT-User fetches fell by about 80% between mid-August and mid-October, and OAI-SearchBot crawling more than doubled over the same weeks.
ObservationScanners hit websites 15 hours before the PHP2Shell patch existedAround one in five monitored sites received exploit-shaped requests between 20 and 22 October. Nearly all were refused at the edge, so they appear in server logs and nowhere else.
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