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In this article, you can see some of the most useful BitNinja CLI commands and their short descriptions. IP management To manage the BitNinja allow, challenge, block list just use the bitninjacli command, then pass the name of the BitNinja list you would like to manage (--greylist /--b...

By default, the debug mode is disabled in BitNinja. If you wish to enable it you might need to make some modifications in /opt/bitninja/etc/config.php . However, this is a temporary solution as this will be overwritten with every update. If you wish to set up the debug mode in BitNinja: E...

The Port honeypot module opens fake services on 100 random ports that have no active service running. So the Port honeypot module won’t stop an active service.These fake services mimic open ports, so if someone is trying to find an open port to exploit it, the IP address will be challenge listed....

Overview Some customers have reported that port 25 (SMTP) becomes blocked after stopping the BitNinja agent.This behavior should not occur in recent versions (≥ 3.12.1). However, servers that previously ran older BitNinja versions may still encounter this issue. This guide explains why it hap...

We added a PCI compliance mode to BitNinja.PCI (Payment Card Industry) scanning usually refers to quarterly external vulnerability scans that must be performed by a PCI approved vendor. BitNinja might block these screenings as they are similar to malicious scans. You just need to enable t...

The server’s load is high due to a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS).In the case of DDoS, the attack comes from multiple IP addresses at the same time. None of the IP addresses establishes enough connections at the time to identify the requests as DoS attacks, but their combined number ...

If your server's load is high while the MalwareDetection module is enabled, follow this troubleshooting guide to resolve the issue. Find out what causes the issue. Inotifywait process We need to check if the load is increased by the Inotifywait process or the MalwareDetection process its...

Some applications miss behave behind a proxy. This is why we need to force a redirection to remain https most of the time. Solution This behavior can be changed:You just need to change this line highlighted in the picture: Run these commands as a root user in your server’s terminal t...

With the Plesk BitNinja plugin, you can install BitNinja automatically on your server by just pasting a license key into the plugin. The plugin is available here. You can choose to purchase your BitNinja license from Plesk or BitNinja directly. Purchase license directly from BitNinja Re...

Unfortunately the BitNinja IPtables ruleset is currently not fully compatible with nf_tables.What does this mean?By default, nf_tables can translate some iptables rules into its own format, but there are exceptions. These include timed rules, logical rules, and certain IPset + chain combinations. ...