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IP reputation scoring system

If BitNinja detects a malicious request from an IP address, then it will be on the account-level challenge listAfter 100 incidents the IP address will be globally challenge listedIf there are more than 50 incident logs about a globally challenge listed IP address we will send an abuse email to ...

IP Filter/CAPTCHA

BitNinja has a challenge list, a block list, and a allow list. All three have an account level and a global level. The account-level challenge listing, block listing or allow listing only takes effect on the servers under the account. If an IP address gets challenge listed due to an incid...

How to check if an IP is blocked by BitNinja

You can check if an IP address is challenge listed or block listed or even if the country of the IP address is blocked. You can just search for the IP address on the Dashboard to see if the IP address is challenge listed, block listed or the country is blocked where the IP address is loc...

Exporting the account-level allow list

You can check what IP addresses are included in your account level Allow list from the dashboard. Account-level Allow list To check the IP addresses added to your account level allow list Open the Firewall/Allow list menu point on the Dashboard Here you can search for the IP address...

Customize the captcha page

You can make the BitNinja captcha page more user-friendly by customizing it. For example, you can include your company logo. This way, users will be more familiar with it The captcha page can be customized on a per-server basis. The default captcha page is stored in the /opt/bitninja/modules/Ca...

Country block

BitNinja has a country blocklist function that will block all requests from the IP addresses that are in the blocklisted country. BitNinja will block all the incoming requests from the country and also all the outbound (to the blocklisted country) connections from your server. Here you can add...

Connection problem (CPanel, Wp-Admin)

The blocked IP(s) are shown when trying to connect to these services and simultaneously running the following command on the server (from the command line): Use the netstat -ntpu | grep SYN_SENT command to check if the connection is blockedCheck what blocks the IP address with this comma...

Bulk adding IPs to the challenge-/block- and allowlist

If you use a service that requires you to allowlist multiple IP addresses or you have multiple IP addresses that are blocked currently in your current firewall or in any other way and you wish to transition them to the BitNinja ipsets. Bulk actions can be done via the BitNinja CLI, or you can ...

Block bots: URL captcha

In case bots are creating spam accounts on your website or trying to brute force an access page. You can just use BitNinja's Browser Integrity Check to block the bots. If the bots fail the Browser integrity check, their IP will be Challange listed on your account, so they will not bother you anym...

Allow list based on domain

We have to allow listed the most trusted and popular services based on domains a long time ago to make sure our customers have the most secure yet smoothest experience while using BitNinja. However, there were a few services that could not be allow listed based on IP addresses, as their list of IP ...