The most wanted files
Bots' most wanted file: /.env
Asked for 8,639 times by 645 scanners across 3,144 sites. They looked for .env in 862 different places.
Sunday, Oct 18, 2026 (UTC) · see the latest
6,046
files hunted
▲ +44% vs the day before
862
.env spots
▲ +6.7% vs the day before
8,639
asks for #1
Every edition: files hunted
How I measure
Requests for paths that only scanners ask for, ranked by how many times they were asked for during the UTC day, across every site behind the edge. Movement compares with the day before; NEW means the path wasn't in the previous day's top 50.
The top 20
Movement is against the day before.
| # | File | Requests | Scanners | Sites | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | /.env | 8,639 | 645 | 3,144 | – |
| 2 | /.env.local | 5,471 | 574 | 2,400 | – |
| 3 | /.env.production | 5,414 | 580 | 2,397 | ▲1 |
| 4 | /.git/config | 5,339 | 887 | 2,712 | ▼1 |
| 5 | /.env.backup | 5,282 | 568 | 2,399 | ▲3 |
| 6 | /api/.env | 5,169 | 533 | 2,365 | ▼1 |
| 7 | /app/.env | 5,140 | 526 | 2,358 | ▼1 |
| 8 | /backend/.env | 5,140 | 526 | 2,356 | ▼1 |
| 9 | /public/.env | 5,103 | 510 | 2,349 | – |
| 10 | /core/.env | 5,091 | 505 | 2,344 | ▲1 |
| 11 | /laravel/.env | 5,052 | 464 | 2,343 | ▲11 |
| 12 | /.env.bak | 3,799 | 560 | 2,400 | ▲1 |
| 13 | /.env.development | 3,761 | 550 | 2,365 | ▼3 |
| 14 | /.env.old | 3,732 | 549 | 2,386 | ▲5 |
| 15 | /.env.save | 3,730 | 543 | 2,388 | ▲8 |
| 16 | /.env.dev | 3,701 | 510 | 2,390 | ▲10 |
| 17 | /.env.staging | 3,697 | 509 | 2,390 | – |
| 18 | /.env.prod | 3,670 | 530 | 2,366 | ▼3 |
| 19 | /.env.example | 3,644 | 519 | 2,358 | ▼7 |
| 20 | /config/.env | 3,643 | 523 | 2,358 | ▲1 |
Past editions
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