Did Apple Search engine bot enter the security LLM fuzzing gauntlet
Just noticed in the last 4 weeks that this user-agent string has gone crazy on the sites I support. 20 million requests in the last 4 weeks or about 500k a day and alot of it looks to try and 'hack'...... user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Applebot-Extended/0.1; +https://ift.tt/L0z91q3) i.e. /key.pem /nginx_status /.hermes/config.yaml etc 0 comments on Hacker News.
Just noticed in the last 4 weeks that this user-agent string has gone crazy on the sites I support. 20 million requests in the last 4 weeks or about 500k a day and alot of it looks to try and 'hack'...... user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Applebot-Extended/0.1; +https://ift.tt/L0z91q3) i.e. /key.pem /nginx_status /.hermes/config.yaml etc
Just noticed in the last 4 weeks that this user-agent string has gone crazy on the sites I support. 20 million requests in the last 4 weeks or about 500k a day and alot of it looks to try and 'hack'...... user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Applebot-Extended/0.1; +https://ift.tt/L0z91q3) i.e. /key.pem /nginx_status /.hermes/config.yaml etc 0 comments on Hacker News.
Just noticed in the last 4 weeks that this user-agent string has gone crazy on the sites I support. 20 million requests in the last 4 weeks or about 500k a day and alot of it looks to try and 'hack'...... user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Applebot-Extended/0.1; +https://ift.tt/L0z91q3) i.e. /key.pem /nginx_status /.hermes/config.yaml etc
Hacker News story: Did Apple Search engine bot enter the security LLM fuzzing gauntlet
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