API Abuse -- Rate Limit Bypass
resolvedAttacker Type
AUTOMATED TOOL
Confidence
95%
Kill Chain
Discovery
Events
45,000
CRS Score
45
Elapsed
2m
EVENT TIMELINE
medium09:00:00
Distributed API scraping detected across 2,000 IPs
info09:01:00
CIE: Unified behavioral rate limit applied
low09:02:00
Attacker redirected to tarpit, engagement resolved
ATTACK NARRATIVE
An automated scraping tool was detected bypassing API rate limits through distributed IP rotation. The tool was cycling through approximately 2,000 residential proxy IPs to evade detection. The Application Agent identified the behavioral fingerprint across all source IPs and applied a unified rate limit. The attacker was redirected to a tarpit endpoint serving deliberately slow responses with fabricated data.
Affected Assets
api-gateway-prodcdn-edge-node-us-east
Agent Layers Involved
appnetwork
PREDICTED NEXT MOVES
01Pivot to authenticated API endpoints
02Attempt BOLA attacks on user resources
03Scrape pricing and inventory data
Pre-Blocked Paths
BLOCKEDPivot to authenticated API endpoints
BLOCKEDAttempt BOLA attacks on user resources
BLOCKEDScrape pricing and inventory data
COUNTER-ACTIONS EXECUTED
Unified rate limit across 2,000 source IPs
09:01:00
Redirected to tarpit endpoint
09:01:30
Behavioral fingerprint added to blocklist
09:02:00