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AI scraping bots indistinguishable from pentest bots, user reports

It has become increasingly difficult to distinguish between AI scraping bots and penetration testing bots. A user reported an overwhelming volume of bot traffic from a newly registered domain, which was quickly probed by numerous non-existent URLs. This activity was managed by a Go application behind a Caddy reverse proxy and tracked using Umami. AI

IMPACT Highlights the challenge of differentiating malicious AI activity from legitimate security testing.

RANK_REASON User commentary on the difficulty of distinguishing between AI scraping bots and pentest bots.

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AI scraping bots indistinguishable from pentest bots, user reports

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    We know the scurge of "AI" scraping bots. But it has become almost impossible to tell the difference between scraping bots and pentest bots. This is from a doma

    We know the scurge of "AI" scraping bots. But it has become almost impossible to tell the difference between scraping bots and pentest bots. This is from a domain I purchased months ago and put something on late on the 26th. 3 humans including me know the domain and I guarantee t…