How to block attacks from "BOT/0.1 (BOT for JCE)" using .htaccess?

Question

I have noticed an increase in attacks from this user agent:

BOT/0.1 (BOT for JCE)

Request line is:

POST /index.php?option=com_jce&task=plugin&plugin=imgmanager&file=imgmanager&version=1576&cid=20 HTTP/1.1

I have tried to block the bot with the following code in the .htaccess file:

SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “BOT for JCE” bad_bot
<Limit GET POST>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Deny from env=bad_bot
</Limit>

But the above is not stopping the bots/attacks. How can I stop them?

Answer 1

Try:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} BOT/0\.[0-9]
RewriteRule ^ - [L,F]