Bots pose as AI agents, AI agents pose as humans, and defenses believe both 2026-11-12 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Over one week in October, an online marketplace took 414,210 visits from traffic wearing the name of a widely used consumer AI agent. Every visit went for the sign-in page, and every one returned errors. […]
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AI agent detection signals that still work when agents look human 2026-11-05 at 08:45 By Mirko Zorz Bots follow a script. AI agents work toward a goal and choose their own steps, which makes them harder to catch. In this Help Net Security interview, Zohaib Ahmed, CEO of Resemble AI explains how agents arrive as […]
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DDoS attacks can knock services offline before links reach capacity 2026-10-16 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec More than 9.1 million DDoS attacks were recorded globally between January and June 2026, an increase of nearly a quarter year over year, according to Netscout’s DDoS Threat Intelligence Report. Large attacks and distributed targeting strain defenses Attacks exceeding […]
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Somewhere in your traffic logs, a bot is doing more than looking 2026-09-22 at 13:30 By Mirko Zorz 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, […]
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Bots with good manners are better at fooling people on social media 2026-09-18 at 13:15 By Sinisa Markovic Most people can’t tell a bot from a human online, and the bots most likely to fool them are the polite ones, according to a new Surfshark study. The company analyzed 1,722 participants worldwide, testing their ability […]
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Non-interactive SSH attacks dominate after login 2026-07-03 at 08:30 By Sinisa Markovic Anyone who runs a server with SSH exposed to the internet sees the same pattern in the logs. A steady stream of automated scanners tries to log in, hour after hour, from addresses all over the world. The common picture of what comes […]
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Cloudflare changes AI crawler access rules 2026-07-02 at 15:21 By Anamarija Pogorelec Cloudflare introduced new controls that let website owners manage AI traffic across three categories: Search, Agent, and Training. The feature is available to all Cloudflare customers, including those on the Free plan, and gives website owners more control over how different types of […]
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Microsoft wants to stop unwanted bots from entering Teams meetings 2026-07-01 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec A new Microsoft Teams admin policy, Manage external bots and their access to meetings, gives organizations greater visibility and control over external bots in meetings. The policy identifies bots and applies safeguards before they are admitted. Microsoft will begin […]
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Notorious ‘sandwich attack’ bot Jaredfromsubway.eth exploited for $7.5M 2026-06-21 at 03:04 By Cointelegraph Jaredfromsubway.eth was responsible for 70% of sandwich attacks on Ethereum between November 2024 and October 2025. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source
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Fake AI songs streamed billions of times, netting fraudster $10 million 2026-03-20 at 12:20 By Anamarija Pogorelec Michael Smith, 54, of Cornelius, North Carolina, has pleaded guilty in federal court to running a scheme that exploited music streaming platforms and diverted royalty payments from artists. He admitted to one count of conspiracy to commit wire […]
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Microsoft working on Teams feature to help admins block unauthorized bots 2026-03-06 at 15:39 By Sinisa Markovic Microsoft plans to add a new Teams feature that lets meeting admins identify and control third-party bots before they join. According to the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, the feature is scheduled to begin rolling out in May 2026 on […]
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Anubis: Open-source web AI firewall to protect from scraper bots 2025-12-22 at 08:49 By Sinisa Markovic Anubis is an open-source tool designed to protect websites from automated scraping and abusive traffic by adding computational friction before a request is served. Maintained by TecharoHQ, the project targets a growing problem for site operators who want to […]
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What Cloudflare’s 2025 internet review says about attacks, outages, and traffic shifts 2025-12-15 at 18:02 By Anamarija Pogorelec The internet stayed busy, brittle, and under constant pressure in 2025. Cloudflare’s annual Radar Year in Review offers a wide view of how traffic moved, where attacks clustered, and what failed when systems were stressed. Cloudflare, which […]
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The architecture of lies: Bot farms are running the disinformation war 2025-10-07 at 14:03 By Sinisa Markovic Bot farms have moved into the center of information warfare, using automated accounts to manipulate public opinion, influence elections, and weaken trust in institutions. Algorithms reward noise over truth Thales reports that in 2024, automated bot traffic made […]
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Bots vs. humans? Why intent is the game-changer 2025-09-17 at 07:30 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Jérôme Segura, VP of Threat Research at Datadome, explains why intent, not just identifying bots, must be the new focus for cybersecurity teams. He explores how advanced AI agents and sophisticated bots blur the […]
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Secrets are leaking everywhere, and bots are to blame 2025-07-31 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Secrets like API keys, tokens, and credentials are scattered across messaging apps, spreadsheets, CI/CD logs, and even support tickets. According to Entro Security’s NHI & Secrets Risk Report H1 2025, non-human identities (NHIs), including bots, service accounts, and automation tools, […]
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Widely available AI tools signal new era of malicious bot activity 2025-04-18 at 07:34 By Help Net Security Rise in accessible AI tools significantly lowered the barrier to entry for cyber attackers, enabling them to create and deploy malicious bots at scale, according to Thales. Automated bot traffic surpassed human-generated traffic for the first time […]
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SafeLine Bot Management: Self-hosted alternative to Cloudflare 2025-04-17 at 16:52 By Help Net Security Modern websites are under constant pressure from automated traffic: scraping, credential stuffing, inventory hoarding, and other malicious bot behaviors. While Cloudflare Bot Management is a powerful cloud-native solution that leverages massive data and machine learning, not every organization wants to rely […]
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AI security posture management will be needed before agentic AI takes hold 2025-01-27 at 07:40 By Help Net Security As I’m currently knee deep in testing agentic AI in all its forms, as well as new iterations of current generative AI models such as OpenAI’s O1, the complexities of securing AI bot frameworks for enterprise […]
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Malicious actors’ GenAI use has yet to match the hype 2025-01-14 at 17:08 By Zeljka Zorz Generative AI has helped lower the barrier for entry for malicious actors and has made them more efficient, i.e., quicker at creating convincing deepfakes, mounting phishing campaigns and investment scams, the most recent report by the Cyber Threat Alliance […]
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