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What 7’434 user-agents taught us
Last month we built a toll booth. AI crawlers and data-harvesting bots that turned up looking for something to ingest got a slow text notice and an invoice for 0.00001 BTC instead of an expensive decoy. It was cheap to...Continue reading→
ClaudeBot wasn’t alone
A follow-up to "How ClaudeBot fell in love with The MIRE/C³" Last time, I told the story of how ClaudeBot found the one door robots.txt left open on cfd.mire.cc and spent weeks pulling tens of thousands of randomly-named files out...Continue reading→
What 421’000 dead-ends taught us
MIRE is the deception layer that sits behind our sites. Anything the real stack would answer with a 404 — the scanner noise, the credential fishing, the CVE-of-the-week probes — gets quietly handed to MIRE instead, which replies with a...Continue reading→
How ClaudeBot fell in love The MIRE/C³
The MIRE/C³ is a Multi-layer Intrusion Response Engine — not just a honeypot, though one of its layers does exactly the kind of bait-and-log work people associate with that word. Part of its job is to look like the soft,...Continue reading→
Error Trapping Improvements
The MIRE/C³ has been enhanced to ensure that errors triggered by scrapers targeting protected websites are automatically redirected into the MIRE/C system. In Neutral 404 mode, all errors are handled uniformly through a generic response, minimizing information leakage and maintaining...Continue reading→
Caught in the MIRE
Inspired by some 1980s rap and vibes, The MIRE/C³ now has a funky them tune. Let the firewalls rise, no compromise. I'm architectin' the code that keeps 'em paralyzed. Throw the switch and watch 'em get caught in the MIRE!Continue reading→
Neutralised 404 Error Mode
The MIRE/C³ system now includes a new mode that forces all errors to be handled neutrally. This mode addresses a common requirement for many companies: avoiding responses that could appear misleading during security testing. For example, during a penetration test,...Continue reading→
Stop Defending. Start Deceiving.
MIRE/C³ introduces a dynamic defense strategy designed to delay and deceive attackers. Whenever a user—or potential intruder—requests a resource that doesn’t exist (or shouldn’t), the system intercepts that request, applies a controlled delay, and evaluates how best to respond. The...Continue reading→
MIRE Attack Categories
The breakdown of patterns that MIRE/C³ responds to are detailed below. Some are more popular than other ones - visit the breakdown page to see which attacks are being targeted by the bad guys. In alphabetical order:
Types of Attacks
The probes and attacks on the MIRE/C³ cluster fall into many categories with some seeing large volumes of connection attempts and some with few connections (all connections being willingly served with MIRE content, of course). The infographic below shows what...Continue reading→