Bots pose as AI agents, AI agents pose as humans, and defenses believe both
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. Behind the name was a credential stuffing operation, with attackers running stolen username and password pairs against the site in bulk. The fake agent was busier than the real ones.
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