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Bing is Microsoft's web search engine, indexing pages and serving results, webmaster tools, and AI-assisted answers across Microsoft products.
Huntress traced an MSP administrator's October 7 Bing search to watchguard-vpn[.]net, a WatchGuard lookalike that served a genuine signed installer. The domain was offline by October 13, and earlier WatchGuard and Microsoft reports had described fake clients.
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Attackers route Google ads through Bing's click-tracking redirect to show bing.com and send Mac users to a fake Claude installer, Push Security found. The setup appears built to pass ad vetting, so the domain an ad displays no longer says where a click lands.
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Three summary judgment briefs in the consolidated news publisher case describe the same conduct using denominators that never meet, and the one the court adopts will set what licensed text is worth to every buyer.
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New York Times lawyers quote a 2023 Microsoft memo calling AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history' in briefs a court unsealed September 17. For teams training on unlicensed data, the case puts dataset custody and internal email in the same record.
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Faav, a 16-year-old researcher, reached admin SQL over 17.3 trillion rows on Microsoft's Titan service because it never checked login-token signatures. Microsoft locked the endpoint four days after his report and paid a $5,000 bounty.
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Faav, 16, impersonated an administrator on Microsoft's internal Titan service with an unsigned token, reaching an estimated 17.3 trillion rows. Microsoft disabled the API four days after his report and paid a $5,000 bounty.
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FoxyInvoice prerenders every public Angular route to static HTML at build time so crawlers that skip JavaScript get the full page text. A build step and a one-line drift check take the place of the always-on SSR server its team declined to run.
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A newly unredacted brief in the New York Times' case quotes a Microsoft director calling AI scraping the largest theft of labor in human history. The underlying exhibits are still sealed, so the quotes arrive without their original context.
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Redactions came off a 92-page plaintiffs' brief in the consolidated OpenAI copyright case on Thursday. Inside are internal Microsoft and OpenAI documents on substitution, memorised training data and collapsing publisher click-throughs.
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The builder shipped 30 Roblox guide sites on Next.js and Vercel in a month, then audited them and found invented code tables across most of the network, plus a canonical tag pointing at a domain he never registered.
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Huntress and BleepingComputer describe sponsored ads that land on a real Claude Artifact page. The download link and the pasted curl command both reach elsewhere, so the trusted hostname never serves the payload.
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Semrush's July estimate has chatgpt.com up 48.38 percent year over year in the United States. The column beside it counts Bing referrals, and Semrush says the table is not a like-for-like comparison.
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Huntress tracked nine months of malware campaigns run through shipped AI sharing features. Public Claude Artifacts, claude.ai/share links and indexable ChatGPT and Grok conversations all put the lure on a domain the victim already trusts.
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Opera spent more than two and a half years challenging the Commission's refusal to designate Edge, lost in its entirety, and now pays Microsoft's costs alongside its own. That is what the litigation route bought.
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Will Scott handed Claude publishing rights and got new URLs carrying old homepage copy under fresh title tags, which turns the AI-in-SEO question into a question about which tool calls need a reviewer.
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The operator of IELTS Writing Checker went from 200 to 1,000 generated pages a day. Google's approximate index count fell from about 3,500 to 2,500 and Search Console impressions hit zero.
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One recorded day-one log is a sample of one site. It is still enough to show that the two submission channels most indexing services bundle do not reach Google the way the pitch implies.
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