Banning phpMyAdmin bots using fail2ban
www.foosel.org/blog/2008/04/banning_phpmyadmin_bots_using_fail2ban
From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
I've had it with those evil bots trying to exploit non-existing phpMyAdmin installations on anything webserverish, therefore I wrote up a small fail2ban rule to ban those bastards after the third attempt. Maybe it's of help to you too, thus here it is.