AkiraBot: The AI-Powered Spam Bot Hijacking Website Chats at Scale

If spam is not a novelty in the digital ecosystem, it might have been thought that artificial intelligence would improve the detection of the latter. Unfortunately, as revealed by a study by SentinelOne, the AI would have contributed to the massive deployment of spam on the web. With nearly 80,000 sites that already have [...]

AkiraBot: The AI-Powered Spam Bot Hijacking Website Chats at Scale

Spam just leveled up. Again.A new threat actor framework called AkiraBot is redefining what automated spam looks like in 2025—and it's doing it with the help of artificial intelligence, CAPTCHA-evasion scripts, and a sprawling infrastructure designed to quietly exploit small business websites across the internet.Discovered and analyzed by SentinelLabs, an elite group of threat researchers at SentinelOne, AkiraBot is not related to the Akira rans…