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never got a name, best we managed was network attribution. ours came mostly from tencent cloud plus a second hetzner asn, all spoofed chrome on windows user agents, and it rotated from digitalocean to tencent within a day once we started blocking asns. need to tell that it executed the AWS WAF js challenge and replayed the token, but never solved an interactive captcha, so flipping the action from challenge to captcha is what finally stopped it

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