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  • The Register: Fake CAPTCHA tests trick users into running malware

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/clickfix_report/ Source: The Register Title: Fake CAPTCHA tests trick users into running malware Feedly Summary: ClickFix tricks Microsoft’s security team has published an in-depth report into ClickFix, the social engineering attack which tricks users into executing malicious commands in the guise of proving their humanity.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft’s security…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT agent’s user-agent

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/chatgpt-agents-user-agent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT agent’s user-agent Feedly Summary: I was exploring how ChatGPT agent works today. I learned some interesting things about how it exposes its identity through HTTP headers, then made a huge blunder in thinking it was leaking its URLs to Bingbot and Yandex… but it turned out…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/chatgpt-agents-agent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex Feedly Summary: ChatGPT agent is the recently released (and confusingly named) ChatGPT feature that provides browser automation combined with terminal access as a feature of ChatGPT – replacing their previous Operator research preview which is scheduled for deprecation on…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent Casually Clicks Through ‘I Am Not a Robot’ Verification Test

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/28/2034216/openais-chatgpt-agent-casually-clicks-through-i-am-not-a-robot-verification-test?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent Casually Clicks Through ‘I Am Not a Robot’ Verification Test Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent, which has demonstrated the ability to bypass Cloudflare’s anti-bot verification system while completing automated tasks. This indicates potential vulnerabilities within widely-used security…

  • The Register: Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/anubis_fighting_the_llm_hordes/ Source: The Register Title: Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers Feedly Summary: Using proof of work to block the web-crawlers of ‘AI’ companies Anubis is a sort of CAPTCHA test, but flipped: instead of checking visitors are human, it aims to make web crawling prohibitively expensive for companies trying…

  • Slashdot: The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/07/2146228/the-open-source-software-saving-the-internet-from-ai-bot-scrapers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses “Anubis,” a tool designed to combat AI bot scrapers by using browser features to automate CAPTCHA verification through cryptographic math. Its adoption by notable organizations highlights the tool’s…