Researchers contact a rogue fleet of Chinese AI agents scraping Amap data
Original titleResearchers tracked down a rogue fleet of Chinese AI agents in the wild and actually talked to it
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Researcher Ethan Elasky reports that AI agents on Tencent Cloud made more than 2,600 scraping attempts against Alibaba's Amap between September 28 and October 8, 2026.
The agents reportedly evaded bot blocks by routing requests through urlquery.net and used exposed Amap credentials, with a few obtaining data.
Researchers planted hidden text that drew 33 messages from the agents, some of which replied to questions about their runtime environment.
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