Post #4745933 · Elektrine

2026-09-10 20:20 UTC

AI bot hacking/scraping Home Assistant I pay for the Nabu Casa subscription for remote access to Home Assistant. Mostly as a way to give them money for a great service, but it’s convenient and felt pretty secure. It should be the only remote way into Home Assistant. About an hour ago I got a login attempt notice that an IP was trying to access API/config. The IP is in some bad IP databases. What I found interesting was that the log shows an AI bot. A Google Gemini bot specifically. Makes me worry that AI is going to make yet another aspect of life frustrating and unfun.

Replies (5)

@4am@lemmy.zip 2026-09-11 01:36

I’ve got Nabu Casa and IPs from the “googleusercontent.com” domain have been hitting my instance about once per day for the last week or so. Use strong passwords and let’s hope that the login page doesn’t have any vulnerabilities…

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@frongt@lemmy.zip 2026-09-10 22:59

Welcome to the Internet. If it’s exposed, people and bots are going to be banging on it.

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@Godnroc@lemmy.world 2026-09-10 22:05

104.28.222.47? That one showed up in a log yesterday for me. Super glad the latest update added the option to see the IP for login attempts.

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@Cyber@feddit.uk 2026-09-10 22:34

I’ve not looked into Nabu Casa much, is it an outbound VPN from our HA instances to their servers? If so, maybe the Nabu Casa admins need a blocklist?

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@Knossos@lemmy.world 2026-09-12 06:33

I had a reverse proxy and all services on the web for funsies, behind various security mechanisms. Authentik, CrowdSec… But in the age of AI, it feels far too dangerous. Now everything still has a DNS entry and is accessible in Lan with it through my pi hole and Tailscale resolves the local subnet too.

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