Forged-Referer Flood Report: october-2026.
145 forged-referer hits sunk at the edge
forged-referer hits sunk (301 to The Tarpit)
distinct impersonated referer hosts
A forged-referer flood is analytics poisoning: bots arriving with referers impersonating trusted domains — hacked associations, search engines, even the victim's own brand. Every one that lands inflates the numbers above the money: sessions rise, reports read as growth, budgets get allocated against visits that never had a person behind them.
Every hit we sink request-by-request is a byte of the victim's analytics that stays human. The flood never reaches the server, the report, or the decision made from it.
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Scope: this ledger is the retail edge (seosink.com's own protection surface) plus every free check run. Estate-wide attack telemetry merges into these reports in a later release — the numbers here are exact for what they measure, and they are a floor, not a ceiling.
Detail that would teach the attacking farm what we can see — fingerprints, source IPs, target properties — is aggregated or held back 30 days. Counts are always exact.