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Vulnerabilities & PatchesEmerging1 sourceSep 22, 2026 · 10:30via Help Net Security

Somewhere in your traffic logs, a bot is doing more than looking

Brief

Akamai has watched verified AI crawlers, ChatGPT among them, move from reading web pages to sending high-frequency POST requests. In a 30-day analysis of its global customers, ecommerce accounted for 44. 8% of those AI bot POST transactions, and travel climbed to 30% in a single month. A GET request asks a website for a page.

A POST request tells the site to do something, like log a user in, add an item to a cart, … More →

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