Fake Googlebot Impersonation (Mediapartners-Google UA) for 2026-10-22

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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: 41Hong Kong: 2Bangladesh: 1Germany: 1Chile: 1Czechia: 1Russia: 1The Netherlands: 1Italy: 1Singapore: 1India: 1France: 1
United States4177.4%
Hong Kong23.8%
Bangladesh11.9%
Germany11.9%
Chile11.9%
Czechia11.9%
Russia11.9%
The Netherlands11.9%
Italy11.9%
Singapore11.9%
India11.9%
France11.9%

IP Address : ASN : City/Provider

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