Fake Googlebot Impersonation (Mediapartners-Google UA) for 2026-10-19

Last Updated: 00:00 UTC

Hosts sending a Mediapartners-Google / Googlebot user-agent from IP ranges that do not belong to Google. Impersonating a search crawler is used to bypass bot filtering and rate limits while scraping or probing. Genuine Google crawler ranges (66.249.0.0/16) are excluded from this list.

MITRE ATT&CK

Tactic: Defense Evasion (TA0005)
Technique: T1036 — Masquerading

Observed URIs

Attackers by Country

United States: 32Russia: 3The Netherlands: 2Singapore: 2Ukraine: 2Nepal: 1Jamaica: 1Vietnam: 1Switzerland: 1Bangladesh: 1Italy: 1
United States3268.1%
Russia36.4%
The Netherlands24.3%
Singapore24.3%
Ukraine24.3%
Nepal12.1%
Jamaica12.1%
Vietnam12.1%
Switzerland12.1%
Bangladesh12.1%
Italy12.1%

IP Address : ASN : City/Provider

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