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Unknown AkiraBot operators

Incidents involved as Deployer

Incident 13651 Report
AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

2024-09-01

SentinelLabs reported that unknown operators used AkiraBot, a Python framework, plus OpenAI's chat API to generate customized SEO spam and bypass CAPTCHAs, posting via SMB websites' contact forms and Reamaze-style chat widgets. Researchers assessed >400k domains were targeted and ≥80k successfully spammed since 09/01/2024. OpenAI said the API key was disabled after disclosure.

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Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Unknown malicious actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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Unknown AkiraBot developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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OpenAI

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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Wix sites

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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Victims of AkiraBot

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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SquareSpace sites

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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Small business owners

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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Shopify sites

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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Medium-sized business owners

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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GoDaddy sites

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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Customers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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Business website users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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Business owners

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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Telegram

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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SmartProxy

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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Selenium WebDriver

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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reCAPTCHA

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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OpenAI Chat Completions API

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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NextCaptcha

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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headless Chrome

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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hCAPTCHA

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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FastCaptcha

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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CAPTCHA

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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Capsolver

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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BeautifulSoup

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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AkiraBot

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1365
    1 Report

    AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale

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