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by mobweb 4876 days ago
My small-ish personal website gets hammered everyday by bots trying to access obscure config files and installer scripts from various CMS I have never even heard about.

I think the chance of successfully obtaining DB credentials using this method is fairly high even without those "backup files" mentioned in the link.

I'd assume there are many people out there who can set up a simple CMS themself but ignore/don't understand how to properly remove the various "installer" and "configurator" scripts once they're done...