AkiraBot is a Python-based framework that exploits website contact forms and live chat widgets, primarily targeting small and medium-sized businesses. Its goal is to promote questionable search.
Cutting corners: A sophisticated spam campaign leveraging GenAI’s large language models has targeted tens of thousands of websites, revealing the darker side of LLMs. According to a detailed report by SentinelLabs, the framework behind this operation, dubbed AkiraBot, has successfully bypassed spam detection filters, delivering AI-generated messages to over 80,000 websites in just four months.
AkiraBot is a Python-based framework that exploits website contact forms and live chat widgets, primarily targeting small and medium-sized businesses. Its goal is to promote questionable search engine optimization services under the brands « Akira » and « ServiceWrap. »
Unlike traditional spam tools that rely on repetitive templates, AkiraBot uses OpenAI’s chat API to generate unique messages tailored to each targeted website. It crafts personalized content using site-specific details scraped with BeautifulSoup, making the messages more difficult for spam filters to detect.
