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Security experts issue warning over the rise of ‘gray bot’ AI web scrapers

Security firm Barracuda has called for organizations to factor AI bots that scrape data from public websites into their security strategies, labelling them not as good or bad bots, but “gray bots”. Defining these three categories of bot, senior principal software engineer for application security engineering at Barracuda Rahul Gupta said: “There are good bots – such as search engine…