Notices by kravitz (kravitz@infosec.exchange)

Could be, but normally they should be using a known user agent and respecting robots.txt.

Curious too, the images on my server are more general photography not really something to do with roads or cars.

@GossiTheDog @jerry @briankrebs @404mediaco

Either Tesla is running an anonymous AI crawler (like Perplexity got called out for) or they have a serious compromise of their servers that is running bad bots.

Either way, I've been getting a steady stream of millions of excessive unwanted attempted requests on the S3 bucket image server of my photography community website (Aminus3) from 60+ IP's all showing as owned by Tesla (AS394161)

The user agent is always "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

Some Ip's include:
149.106.193.188
149.106.193.189
149.106.193.190
8.47.24.185
8.47.24.186
8.47.24.187
8.47.24.188
8.47.24.189
8.47.24.190
149.106.193.190
199.120.49.180
199.120.49.181
199.120.49.182
199.120.49.183
199.120.49.184
199.120.49.185
199.120.49.186
199.120.49.187

Would be interested to hear if anyone else is seeing this activity and what's going on there.

@briankrebs @404mediaco
@jerry

@jerry If a readBot finishes a chatBot's book in the forest and forgot to make a summary, did it ever make a sound?