Introduction
The "Community Blocklist" is a curated list of IP addresses identified as malicious by CrowdSec. CrowdSec proactively block the IP addresses of this blocklist, preventing malevolent IPs from reaching your systems.
Community Blocklist Variation and Eligibility
The rules are different for free and paying users:
- Free users that do not contribute get the
Community Blocklist (Lite) - Free users that do contribute get access to the
Community Blocklist - Paying users get access to the
Community Blocklist (Premium), even if they don't contribute
Regardless of the blocklist "tier" you have access to (Lite, Community, Premium), each Security Engine gets a tailored blocklist based on the kind of behavior you're trying to detect.
Community Blocklist
Free users that are actively contributing to the network (sending signal on a regular basis) have their Security Engines automatically subscribed to the Community Blocklist.
The content of the blocklist is unique to each Security Engine, as it mirrors the behaviours they report. For example, suppose you're running the Security Engine on a web server with WordPress. In that case, you will receive IPs performing generic attacks against web servers and IPs engaging in wordpress-specific attacks.
The Community Blocklist contains 15 thousand malicious IP's based on your reported scenarios.
Community Blocklist (Premium)
Paying users' Security Engine are automatically subscribed to the Community Blocklist (Premium), which contains IPs that mirror their installed scenarios. Paying users' do not need to contribute to the network to be eligible to the blocklist.
The Community Blocklist (Premium) blocklist content has no size limit, unlike free users.
Community Blocklist (Lite)
Free users that are not actively contributing to the network or that have been flagged as cheating/abusing the system will receive the Community Blocklist (Lite).
This Blocklist is capped at 3 thousand IPs.
