Firewalld had a similar issue up until recently as well.
I get they're DDoS; but take the mask off, and arn't they just the AI monied interests that fund the FSF? and a lot of them are just active inference, eg, the user is trying to ask about something and the AI monied interests setup a web scraper to go and get that data.
Just seems like no one wants to call out the hand that feeds them in a human centipede that's best described as the torment nexus.