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So we got hit by a scraping attack today.

Developer JE Ramos reported that an AI agent scraped one of his websites, generating 5 million requests in two hours, bypassing Cloudflare's default protections. The attacker used Lightpanda, a headless browser designed for AI agents, to carry out the scraping attack.

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So we got hit by a scraping attack today.
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JE Ramos Posted on Aug 18 So we got hit by a scraping attack today.AI Agent scraped one of my website, even cloudflare out of the box wasn’t able to stop it. 5m requests in a span of 2hrsThey were using Lightpanda, a headless browser for agents, but instead of running workflow Top comments (0) Subscribe Personal Trusted User Create template Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use. Submit Preview Dismiss Code of Conduct • Report abuse Are you sure you want to hide this comment? It will become hidden in your post, but will still be visible via the comment's permalink. Hide child comments as well Confirm For further actions, you may consider blocking this person and/or reporting abuse

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