Fake OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepSeek Crawlers Target .env Files and Cloud Credentials

Threat actors are impersonating AI web crawlers from organizations such as OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Perplexity, and Amazon to scan internet-facing servers for exposed secrets, according to a GreyNoise research report published on August 28, 2026. This activity involves automated scanners that use forged crawler user-agent strings to request sensitive files, including .env configurations, AWS […]

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