Attackers Spoof ChatGPT and Claude Identities to Hunt Exposed Credentials
TechNadu · x · 2026-11-06
TechNadu interviews Cequence AI's William Glazier on attackers spoofing AI bots like ChatGPT and Claude to hunt for exposed credentials. One scanner rotated through 32 bot identities and hundreds of cloud IPs to evade detection, and the interview argues that User-Agent checks and rate limits are no longer sufficient to distinguish malicious traffic from legitimate AI crawlers.
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