Bot scraping/DDoS against ILS and discovery layers

From: Eric Blevins <000001d7eb585e16-dmarc-request_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:26:41 +0000
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Good morning,

First time posting to Code4Lib, but have been a watcher for several years. I'm curious from strictly a numbers standpoint how many libraries might've been impacted recently (say the last couple of weeks or so) by massive bot harvesting of data, basically resulting in a DDoS attack, against your ILS, Discovery Layers, or other systems. I'm actually also curious if non-Innovative/Clarivate product libraries are seeing similar issues. We are an innovative/Clarivate product shop, so we have some awareness that others with those products were impacted. Again, aside from curiosity if you're a non-Clarivate shop, I'm not looking for specifics just wondering about the scope of the attacks against other institutions/orgs.

Regards,

Eric C. Blevins
Sr. Manager of Library Technology
RIT Libraries
Rochester Institute of Technology
Email: Eric.Blevins_at_rit.edu<mailto:Eric.Blevins_at_rit.edu>
Received on Wed Mar 26 2025 - 07:24:39 EDT