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SOURCE-LINKED INTELLIGENCE
AkiraBot Reportedly Used OpenAI to Spam Website Chats and Contact Forms at Scale
SentinelLabs reported that unknown operators used AkiraBot, a Python framework, plus OpenAI's chat API to generate customized SEO spam and bypass CAPTCHAs, posting via SMB websites' contact forms and Reamaze-style chat widgets. Researchers assessed >400k domains were targeted and ≥80k successfully spammed since 09/01/2024. OpenAI said the API key was disabled after disclosure.
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- incident-report
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- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2024-09-01T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2025-04-09T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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