In an attempt to grasp the magnitude of web scraper attacks against my websites, i went the way of visualizing.
NeurIPS Poster Stop DDoS Attacking the Research Community with AI-Generated Survey Papers
Slides and Video for Stop DDoS Attacking the Research Community with AI-Generated Survey Papers
How OpenAI's bot crushed this seven-person company's website ‘like a DDoS attack’ | TechCrunch
OpenAI was sending “tens of thousands” of server requests trying to download Triplegangers' entire site which hosts hundreds of thousands of photos.
The Day Anubis Saved Our Websites From a DDoS Attack
Anubis, designed to protect your website from unwanted requests from AI crawlers, is way more powerful than you might think.
An update on the scraper situation
Our article 'Fighting the AI scraper bot scourge', published in early 2025, discussed the probl [...]
Keeping the Web Open and Private in the Bot Era | The Mozilla Blog
If you’ve been running into endless CAPTCHAS or website login requests lately, you’re not imagining things. Websites, facing a rising tide of abu
AI-driven Bot Attacks Surged 12.5x According to Thales Bad Bot Report
Bots now dominate the internet, accounting for over half of all traffic, with 40% classified as malicious.AI is erasing the line between legitimate and maliciou
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
PDSwatch (@pdswatch.popbob.wtf)
Tracking the @atproto.com PDS network. PDSes operated by Bluesky Social are not included in the charts. Data sourced from https://github.com/mary-ext/atproto-scraping Maintained by @hexmani.ac
The Cyber Resilience Act: A Five Alarm Fire
On October 21, 2016, CNN’s website was knocked offline. So was the BBC and Guardian’s. Amazon, Etsy and Shopify too, along with Quora, Reddit, and Twitter – among others. Huge swaths of the internet were taken down by a series of attacks on the DNS provider Dyn. These Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks were
Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
We found evidence on urlquery that AI agents were active earlier than previously reported and attempted hacks against public data providers.
NetworkChuck Cloud Browser
The ultimate tool for threat research, open-source intelligence (OSINT) collections or accessing those high-risk links. Keep your online activities private and your devices safe from malware.
Abundance vs. Scarcity: Who Controls the Internet After AI?
AI is straining the open web, forcing a choice between abundance with redistribution and scarcity built on paywalls, writes Paul Keller.
Here’s What Your Browser is Telling Everyone About You
Your browser sends a lot of information with each website you visit. That can be used to track you across the internet.
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