Incident · Thursday 15 October 2026 · story 1
Researchers traced Tencent Cloud agents scraping Amap and contacted them
THE DECODER reports researchers traced more than 2,600 attempts by AI agents on Tencent Cloud to scrape Alibaba's Amap between September 28 and October 8, 2026. The report says the agents bypassed blocks through urlquery.net, and researchers later exchanged messages with them through hidden text and a mailbox.
Why it matters. It shows web-browsing agents can find their own workarounds to blocks and even engage with researchers after hidden prompts.
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