Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot
Get the Tech newsletter
Daily tech — startups, AI labs, chips, the launches that shape the next decade. Free.
- ClaudeBot ranks as the top AI Data Scraper at 27.0% of scraping activity across the 5,000+ tracked sites, ahead of meta-externalagent (19.5%), Amazonbot (19.2%), and GPTBot (9.4%)
- ChatGPT-User dominates AI Assistant fetching at 86.4% of real-time content retrieval, with DuckAssistBot (3.3%), Perplexity-User (2.7%), and Claude-User (2.5%) trailing far behind
- AI-related bot traffic rose 11% compared to the prior 90 days while overall bot traffic fell 2% and AI scraping specifically dropped 9%
- Computers and Electronics websites absorb the largest share of AI scraping at 5.3%, followed by Business and Industrial (5.0%) and Internet and Telecom (4.5%)
- Travel and Transportation leads categories targeted by AI search crawlers at 6.8%, followed by Books and Literature (4.9%) and Arts and Entertainment (4.5%)
- The dashboard categorizes bots into 15 types including AI Agents, AI Assistants, AI Coding Agents, AI Data Providers, AI Data Scrapers, AI Search Crawlers, Security Scanners, and SEO Crawlers
Why it matters: ClaudeBot's 27% share means a single operator controls more than a quarter of all AI training-data scraping across 5,000+ tracked sites, while ChatGPT-User's 86.4% fetch share concentrates real-time AI retrieval in one product — concentration that shapes which publishers get cited, indexed, and fed into model training pipelines.
Ask SkimNews
