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It sounds like the bot was making about one request every 3 seconds. I'd hardly call that "aggressive".


It is aggressive in what content is trying to access. It looks for security vulnerabilities and normal bots don't do that (with the notable exception of some security testing software). Also it's not spidering, somehow it knows very old URLs which are not even public which were probably obtained from a malicious browser extension.




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