Somewhere in your traffic logs, a bot is doing more than looking
Akamai found verified AI crawlers, including ChatGPT, sending frequent POST requests to ecommerce and travel sites.
Akamai’s 30-day review found verified AI crawlers, including ChatGPT, moving from GET page fetches to high-frequency POST requests used for logins, carts, and checkouts. Ecommerce accounted for 44.8% of those AI bot POST transactions, travel reached 30% in one month, and Model Context Protocol traffic was 4.1%. Akamai warned that unsanctioned MCP services without authentication can expose personal data. It declined to publish vulnerability results from early access to Anthropic’s Mythos model under Project Glasswing.
- Ecommerce accounted for 44.8% of AI bot POST transactions in 30 days.
- Travel reached 30% of those POST transactions within a single month.
- MCP traffic was 4.1%; unauthenticated services may expose personal data.
- Akamai would not disclose Mythos findings from Anthropic’s Project Glasswing.
- Vendors
- Akamai
- Products
- Model Context Protocol
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Akamai has watched verified AI crawlers, ChatGPT among them, move from reading web pages to sending high-frequency POST requests. In a 30-day analysis of its global customers, ecommerce accounted for 44. 8% of those AI bot POST transactions, and travel climbed to 30% in a single month.
By Mirko Zorz · helpnetsecurity.com
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