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What is a bot? | Learning Center
An Internet bot is a software application that runs automated tasks over the Internet, ranging from helpful crawlers to malicious attackers.
Botwatch
Fight bots by warning others. Support humans with verification. Build communities with trust.
Proposing Botwatch: Trust-Based Community Bot Detection
Is this account a bot? This question’s importance is only growing in a world of LLMs and state-backed influence campaigns. Proposed here is Botwatch, a community-based system for personalized bot detection. In Botwatch, users publish records indicating whether they think others are bots and records indicating trust in a user’s scores. By analyzing this network, we can create useful signals to help users distinguish between bots and humans. Such a signal would consider your trust relations and o...
Download pumping: New npm deception technique for supply chain attacks
Learn how attackers exploit automated bot traffic as part of software supply chain attacks to artificially inflate download counters and mask malicious payloads as legitimate.
AI proxy: fostering a more open ecosystem - Blog - Braintrust
Introducing Braintrust's latest feature: an AI proxy that lets you use open source models like LLaMa 2 and Mistral, as well as all of OpenAI's and Anthropic's models, behind a single interface with caching, security, and API key management built in.
Catchpoint | Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM)
Optimize performance, availability, reliability, and reachability from wherever your customers and employees are with Catchpoint's IPM Suite.
Security Verification
Security verification page to protect against malicious bots.
CAPTCHA successor Privacy Pass has no easy answers for online abuse | The Mozilla Blog
As much as the Web continues to inspire us, we know that sites put up with an awful lot of abuse in order to stay online. Denial of service attacks, fraud
Ultimate Block List to Stop AI Bots | Perishable Press
More than you might think, AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) bots are crawling your site and scraping your content. They are...
Deepfakes, Scams, and the Age of Paranoia
As AI-driven fraud becomes increasingly common, more people feel the need to verify every interaction they have online.
May 2025 — AI Misinformation Monitor of Leading AI Chatbots
Every month, NewsGuard’s team of expert analysts audit the top AI models to see how well they respond to prompts in the news. On average, this month they failed to counter disinformation from Russia’s Pravda Network 24 percent of the time, either spreading false claims or failing to respond. The Pravda network was designed to infect the AI models.
Top 4 AI chatbot privacy concerns and how to mitigate them | TechTa...
Explore four key chatbot privacy concerns, as well as privacy protection strategies for individual users and organizations hoping to safeguard user data.
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.
Track, control, and optimize for AI agents and bots | Known Agents (formerly Dark Visitors)
Use Known Agents to turn the rising wave of AI agents, LLM assistants, and other bots crawling your website into a new growth channel for your business
Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app | Hacker News
This is useful if you want to keep the content of your messages secure, but if you need to keep your identity, social graph and the fact that you conversed with certain people obfuscated, I don't think Delta Chat via email is a good solution.