An Attacker Spent Months Harvesting Credentials by Posing as AI Crawlers

ADEQUATE ASSESSMENT

The impersonation was relentless, which is a word that appears in the logs approximately 4,000 times. Access was granted because AI bots are trusted by default. Default had not been reviewed. The department responsible for reviewing defaults has been identified. It has not been named here.

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