I pay for the Nabu Casa subscription for remote access to Home Assistant. Mostly as a way to give them money for a great service, but it’s convenient and felt pretty secure. It should be the only remote way into Home Assistant. About an hour ago I got a login attempt notice that an IP was trying to access API/config. The IP is in some bad IP databases. What I found interesting was that the log shows an AI bot. A Google Gemini bot specifically. Makes me worry that AI is going to make yet another aspect of life frustrating and unfun.
This one was 66.187.5.19. I tried to find a way to report their behavior on hostodo (the service they’re using) but they don’t seem to have a report option. I’m guessing because they don’t want to prevent this kind of thing.
the whois info for the IP might have an abuse email address, try that
Can confirm it does:
OrgAbuseHandle: ABUSE9107-ARIN OrgAbuseName: ABUSE OrgAbusePhone: +1-313-516-8908 OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@hostodo.com OrgAbuseRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/ABUSE9107-ARINThey have options. No idea if they actually do anything for the reports, but it’s worth a shot.
Often you can just send them a email about the behavior using their generic contact info.