Hello,
We have been seeing slow performance on our site for the past week. I dug in further and found it was because MySQL was pegging the CPU at 95%. Looking in the admin it appears that a bad actor is sending hundreds of shopping cart requests from different IP address in the same subnet originating in Hong Kong.
It looks like they are trying to exhaust the resources of the web server by engaging in this attack.
Any thoughts on how this can be prevented? We are running on 1.5.6c.
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