Scanners impersonate ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity to hunt credentials
Cequence says one actor rotated about 32 bot identities and sought secrets; it does not confirm theft.
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Pay Per Use: when AI uses your work, you should get paid
Cloudflare opened Pay Per Use in beta so publishers can charge when AI products use their content.
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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.
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Have it both ways: stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training
Cloudflare launches Disallow AI Training setting letting sites block AI training via robots.txt while staying indexed in search; Apple, Google, and Microsoft honor it.
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Introducing More Granular Controls for AI Bot Traffic
Akamai introduced more granular controls for managing AI bot traffic within its bot management platform.
Threat actors are posing as AI crawlers to hunt for exposed credentials
GreyNoise observed scanners spoofing AI crawler user agents from 824 IPs to harvest .env files and cloud credentials; no confirmed theft.
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Say it once: Introducing Bot Preference Sync
Cloudflare launched Bot Preference Sync, which automatically syncs robots.txt files with AI bot policies covering search, agent, and training crawlers.
Your Website Now Has Two Audiences: Humans and AI
Akamai argues websites now serve two audiences — humans and AI agents — reshaping web traffic, content delivery, and site design considerations.