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#Ai Crawlers

5 articles on Ai Crawlers — news, releases, guides and analysis from the SourceFeed engine.

Fake ClaudeBots Are Scanning for Your AI Credentials

A spoofing campaign probing for Claude settings and .env files shows user-agent strings were never identity.

Mass vulnerability scans are hiding behind AI crawler user-agents, hunting the credential files AI coding tools leave behind.

One site's server logs show the crawl-for-referrals deal is dead, and per-site firewalls can't fix it.

New per-purpose controls land on every plan, and September's defaults put bundled crawlers like Googlebot on notice.

Every bot must declare Search, Agent, or Training by September 15, and mixed-use crawlers get the strictest rule.