Researches at SentinelOne have discovered AkiraBot, an AI-powered bot that targets small to medium-sized company websites.AkiraBot has spammed at least 80,000 websites since September 2024 and has targeted over 400,000 websites in total.The bot uses generative AI to generate custom outreach messages and bypass spam filters and CAPTCHA barriers.The use of generative AI by AkiraBot poses challenges for website defense against spam attacks.