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Marketing · searchenginejournal.com · Monday, 17 August 2026

Your Top "AI Crawler" Is Probably a Bot Hunting Your SSH Keys

Cloudflare's CFO says machine traffic could hit 1,000x human traffic in five years. But when one site owner pulled his crawler logs, the so-called top "AI crawler" sent 1,028 requests for SSH keys, .env files and private keys, not content. A reminder that bot growth is less about indexing, more about credential theft.

Read the source: searchenginejournal.com ↗In the 17 August issue →