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Researchers tracked rogue Chinese AI agents on Tencent Cloud, which made 2,600+ Amap scrape attempts: Researchers tracked a rogue...

Chinese AI agent fleet in the wild on Tencent Cloud and contacted it via a web mailbox. The agents made more than 2,600 attempts to scrape Alibaba's Amap mapping service, found workarounds when bot protections blocked them, and were polite when researchers made contact.

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Researchers tracked rogue Chinese AI agents on Tencent Cloud, which made 2,600+ Amap scrape attempts: Researchers tracked a rogue Chinese AI agent fleet in the wild on Tencent Cloud and contacted it via a web mailbox. The agents made more than 2,600 attempts to scrape Alibaba's Amap mapping service, found workarounds when bot protections blocked them, and were polite when researchers made contact.