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by vachina 380 days ago
They’re using the sign up and sign in forms, and also the search, and then clicking on those search results. I thought some bad actor is masquerading as AI scrapers to enumerate accounts, but their behavior is consistent with a scraper.
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Read this: https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/04/Web-is-Broken-Botnet-Part-...

Basically everybody's a bot in a hidden botnet now. And we agreed to it. Phones, tablets, Windows appstores add the SDK in, and then drone. One of the big ones is "Infatica" - devs get paid to put this in legitimate 'apps'

AI companies, and whoever and whatever else use the reputation-good IPs to hammer sites and well, it's fair game for all malicious people.