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Real attack data from a live Magento 2 store — 1,254 malicious requests blocked in 24 hours.
We Blocked 1,254 Malicious Requests to Our Magento Store in 24 Hours — Here's What We Found
By James at QKits Electronics — February 2026
We run a Magento 2 e-commerce store selling electronics, Arduino boards, 3D printer supplies, and components. Like every online store, we deal with bots, scrapers, and attackers every single day.
Last week, we pulled the logs from a single 24-hour period on our live production store. The results were eye-opening — even for us.
1,254 malicious requests blocked. In one day.
Every one of those requests was stopped before it could touch our application, waste server resources, or compromise our store.
Here's what we found hiding in the data.
The Numbers
Our CountryBlocker module logged every blocked request with the source country, IP address, and target URL.
The top 10 source countries:
| Country | Blocked Requests |
|---|---|
| China | 268 |
| Vietnam | 185 |
| Singapore | 114 |
| Brazil | 79 |
| Germany | 58 |
| Finland | 47 |
| India | 46 |
| Bangladesh | 43 |
| Russia | 37 |
| Mexico | 19 |
Traffic came from 20+ countries in total — almost none of it legitimate for a Canadian electronics retailer that ships primarily to Canada and the US.
The Scary Part: Active Exploit Attempts
This wasn't just random bot traffic.
We found 33 active exploit attempts in a single day — attackers specifically targeting known Magento vulnerabilities.
The Magento Webshell Attack Chain
Two persistent attackers from Germany and Russia ran the same exploit chain multiple times:
- Hit the homepage to confirm the site is alive
- Probe
/customer/address_file/upload— a known Magento file upload vulnerability - Attempt to create a guest cart via
/rest/V1/guest-carts/{id}/order - Try to drop a PHP webshell (a backdoor file) onto the server
One attacker repeated this exact pattern five times in a single day. The other ran it three times with variations, trying different webshell filenames each time.
Every single attempt was blocked before it reached Magento.
The WordPress Scanner
One IP from Finland hit our store 34 times in rapid succession, probing for WordPress configuration files:
wp-config.php
wp-config.bak
wp-config.old
...and dozens of variations
They even tried custom paths specific to our domain — meaning they had specifically targeted our site, not just running a generic scan.
SQL Injection Probes
We caught an Austrian IP attempting SQL injection through our catalog search:
/catalogsearch/result/index/?p=2'&q=vm100+posting.php+mode
Classic injection testing. Blocked instantly.
The DDoS Probe
An Israeli IP hammered our homepage 12 times in rapid succession — likely an automated availability check before launching a larger attack.
Blocked before it could gather any useful information.
What This Means for Your Store
If you're running a Magento store without geographic traffic filtering, all of this traffic is:
- Hitting your PHP processes — consuming server resources
- Filling your logs with noise
- Probing for vulnerabilities
- Degrading performance for real customers
Most store owners never look at their logs. They don't know this is happening. But it is — every single day.
How We Stop It
CountryBlocker for Magento 2
Blocks traffic at the application level based on country of origin using GeoIP lookup. Configure which countries can access your store, and everything else gets blocked before Magento even processes the request. Full logging shows you exactly what's being blocked and from where.
SearchAbuse Protection for Magento 2
Monitors your catalog search for abuse patterns — bots hammering search queries, injection attempts, and automated scraping.
Offending IPs are automatically banned and written to .htaccess, so they're blocked at the Apache level before PHP even starts.
See them in action at https://73ca724a70.nxcli.io/ <- QKits Test server
QKits Electronics is a Canadian electronics retailer based in Kingston, Ontario, specializing in Arduino, Raspberry Pi, ESP32, 3D printer supplies, and electronic components. We've been designing and selling electronics online since 1996. Service oriented for 45 years +.
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