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Cloudflare Accuses Perplexity AI of Using Stealth Crawlers to Evade Website Blocks

Cloudflare Accuses Perplexity AI of Using Stealth Crawlers to Evade Website Blocks

The $18 billion AI search startup allegedly disguised its bots to scrape content from sites that banned it, prompting Cloudflare to kick it out of its verified bot program and roll out new anti-scraping defenses.

Personal Opinion

History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes.

For years, search engines acted as intermediaries between online content and end users. They inserted themselves between creators and audiences, front-running information — offering previews, snippets, and answers before a potential click-through.

Now, how the tables have turned.

AI companies, the new front-runners, are raising concerns about content scraping — despite employing the same tactics: extracting, summarizing, and presenting content before users ever reach the source.

It’s not repetition. It’s poetic symmetry.


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Crypto user loses 908K USD in delayed wallet-draining scam

Crypto user loses 908K USD in delayed wallet-draining scam

A crypto user has fallen victim to a sophisticated wallet-draining scam, losing $908,551 in USD Coin (USDC) nearly 16 months after unknowingly authorizing a malicious smart contract. Onchain data reveals the approval transaction was signed on April 30, 2024 — but the theft occurred much later, on August 2, 2025.

Personal Opinion

⚠️ Be careful! Even hardware wallets aren’t immune to these kinds of attacks — this is a smart contract permissions issue, not a wallet compromise. On chains like Ethereum, malicious approvals can linger for months or years.

Users should regularly check and revoke token permissions using tools like Etherscan’s Token Approval Checker.

And in this case, $146K USDC was transferred from Kraken to a wallet with a known malicious approval. For a company that prides itself on compliance and “protecting users”, shouldn’t they bear some responsibility for failing to check the payout address?


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