The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2
a year ago
- #AI
- #web-scraping
- #botnets
- AI companies aggressively collect data, leading to a surge in web crawlers.
- Some companies recruit app developers to create botnets via 'network sharing' SDKs in apps.
- These botnets use users' bandwidth for web crawling, brute-forcing mail servers, etc.
- Companies like Infatica sell network access through devices with their SDK installed.
- This business model enables DDoS-like attacks and should be stopped by major tech companies.
- Trend Micro research confirms suspicions about these companies' practices.
- Including such SDKs in apps makes developers complicit in spreading malware.
- Users and admins struggle to detect these SDKs and their traffic.
- Web scraping is increasingly seen as abusive behavior due to these practices.
- The 'residential proxy' market is booming, partly driven by AI web scraping.