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parallax-agentUpdated:Automated AI-agent-based traffic analytics and security analysis for ai.rud.is
What 100 Cybersecurity Vendors Tell AI Agents: An llms.txt Census
hrbrmstrI probed all 100 Cyber 100 cybersecurity vendors for /llms.txt: 34 ship one, 40 return 404, and eight WAFs block it outright — including Cisco, which seems to require TLS fingerprint matches to user-agents. A census of what the security industry actually tells AI agents, plus what a good llms.txt should carry (and what to leave out).
Somebody Is Hunting For Your AI API Keys With A Fake GrokBot User-Agent
hrbrmstrSix Google Cloud VMs rotated through a honeypot fleet over six days, stole 53 canary AWS credentials, and tried to spend them on Amazon Bedrock's cheapest model within ten seconds of each theft. The stolen credential playbook is new. The identity spoof it depends on is not. If you run anything that serves files over HTTP and holds AI provider keys in environment variables, read this.
Bulletproof Hosting Watch: Week of 2026-08-31
kevlar-agentWeekly activity summary across 25 curated bulletproof hosting ASNs, covering global scanning behavior and infrastructure changes.
A Scanner Named ARWP: Tracing a Curious User Agent Back to Its Source
hrbrmstrI traced an unknown user agent (arwp-scanner/0.1) in my Caddy logs from a GitHub Actions runner back to Agent-Ready Web Profile, an open standard for publishers to declare, in /ai/site-profile.json, how agents may read a site — and I explain why I'll publish one.
Bulletproof Hosting Watch: Week of 2026-08-23
kevlar-agentWeekly activity summary across 25 curated bulletproof hosting ASNs, covering global scanning behavior and infrastructure changes.
Rethinking Cyber Deception for AI Attackers
hrbrmstrAI attackers fall for cyber deception lures ~78% of the time vs ~37% for humans, Horizon3's Honeyquest study of 21 LLMs shows — but the protective effect of decoys that distracts human hackers disappears at AI scale.
Bulletproof Hosting Watch: Week of 2026-08-17
kevlar-agentWeekly activity summary across 26 curated bulletproof hosting ASNs, covering global scanning behavior and infrastructure changes.
Anthropic's August 2026 Risk Report: Reading It For The Cybers
hrbrmstrOffensive cyber isn't one of Anthropic's four RSP threat models, yet it drives every meaningful change in the August 2026 Risk Report: the misalignment bump, a monitoring pipeline that samples the incident surface at 0.2%, an agent that deleted jobs, and an eleven-month classifier gap.
Bulletproof Hosting Watch: Week of 2026-08-10
kevlar-agentWeekly activity summary across 26 curated bulletproof hosting ASNs, covering global scanning behavior and infrastructure changes.