22 Feb 2026
GPTBot Abuse Case Study: OpenAI's Bot Causing DDoS
Late on a Sunday afternoon, a monitoring system flagged a CPU spike on one of our shared hosting servers.
Late on a Sunday afternoon, a monitoring system flagged a CPU spike on one of our shared hosting servers.
The internet is full of malicious bots. They attack websites, social media, and even IoT devices. Bots can cause chaos everywhere, and my website was no exception. Bots flooded it with harmful content, messed with data, and left confusing comments.