Hackers Impersonate ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity AI Bots to Hunt for Passwords and API Keys
The campaign ran from late September to late October, impersonating 32 AI bot identities to scan for exposed secrets across multiple industries.
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Perplexity AI
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- First seenOct 21, 2026
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2 articles · newest firstPerplexity releases pplx-embed-v2-late 0.6B and 9B models
Both models, distilled from an 18B teacher, share an embedding space so the 9B can index and the 0.6B can query.
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- pplx-embed-v2-late-0.6bai model · 1
- Claudeai model · 1
- pplx-embed-v2-late-9bai model · 1
- Metavendor · 1
- OpenAIvendor · 1
- Perplexityai model · 1
- Anthropicvendor · 1
- ChatGPTai model · 1
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