Parser bots attacked developers

A sharp increase in bot attacks in the summer of 2025 was recorded in the construction sector, and developers' resources are overloaded, the cybersecurity company Servicepipe told Izvestia.

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At the same time, a new wave of cyber attacks has been recorded in the last two days.

Parser bots collected information about thousands of objects on developers' websites. This mechanism was used, in particular, by specialized Telegram chats, which accumulate information about facilities under construction or commissioned, and then sell it. As explained in the company, the amount of information that parsers collect can be significant and attacks by bot parsers put a significant strain on developers' services.

"A single botnet crawl can generate tens of thousands of heavy database queries. Continuous requests to the service create a load comparable to a DDoS attack for the service (a hacker attack aimed at disabling a resource. — Ed.)," said Servicepipe.

For example, several botnets can be sent to a single site at the same time, and developers often simply do not have resources designed for such load peaks.

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