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The AI key heist

Bots went hunting for AI keys 1,070 times.

Most wanted: MCP & agent configs keys. They checked 104 hiding spots, from /img/asset/YXNzZXRzL2dlbWluaV9nZW5lcmF0ZWRfaW1hZ2VfaDA2MWxnaDA2MWxnaDA2MS1jb3B5LndlYnA/gemini_generated_image_h061lgh061lgh061-copy.webp to /sign/a20a2ddd-49fd-4df5-864c-a0c388e62db5/a322fcb2-0261-406d-8e30-9adada95f7b9/waiting-room/pt7YBQMCpRylpnCNZerEabPKux8WmdTUwpVN6Eriyhaafu1L/heartbeat.

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1,070

AI key hunts

▼ -19% vs the day before

380

hunters

▼ -17% vs the day before

104

hiding spots

▼ -1.0% vs the day before

0.2%

of all probes

Whose keys they want requests
MCP & agent configs 563
Google Gemini 301
xAI 132
Anthropic 43
OpenAI 30
↳ Keep your keys out of your web root.

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How we measure

Requests for paths that point at an AI provider's keys or an AI agent's settings: /.env.openai, /anthropic.json, /.claude/settings.json, /mcp.json, /.cursor/mcp.json and the like. Each path is credited to the first provider whose name it contains. Counted across every site behind the NiceTryBot edge during the UTC day.

Where they looked

The paths scanners tried, most-requested first.

Path Provider Requests Scanners
/img/asset/YXNzZXRzL2dlbWluaV9nZW5lcmF0ZWRfaW1hZ2VfaDA2MWxnaDA2MWxnaDA2MS1jb3B5LndlYnA/gemini_generated_image_h061lgh061lgh061-copy.webp Google Gemini 287 240
/sign/a20a2ddd-49fd-4df5-864c-a0c388e62db5/a322fcb2-0261-406d-8e30-9adada95f7b9/waiting-room/pt7YBQMCpRylpnCNZerEabPKux8WmdTUwpVN6Eriyhaafu1L/heartbeat MCP & agent configs 176 2
/sign/a20a2ddd-49fd-4df5-864c-a0c388e62db5/a3228309-4dfd-4d96-b6e1-da33492aea25/waiting-room/5O9y81CBeJlM18MgcWEWJ4DLMcP1kBKrJ0u8E6bUQUSnhxgb/heartbeat MCP & agent configs 80 55
/sign/a20a2ddd-49fd-4df5-864c-a0c388e62db5/a323a919-95c0-41f7-86bb-fbb22071e6f0/waiting-room/MyCzgxUDCACbABWaAVdUsevYkkVmcpfgwUnhHtHBIdxRQd1F/heartbeat MCP & agent configs 53 1
/sign/a20a2ddd-49fd-4df5-864c-a0c388e62db5/a3228309-4dfd-4d96-b6e1-da33492aea25/waiting-room/5O9y81CBeJlM18MgcWEWJ4DLMcP1kBKrJ0u8E6bUQUSnhxgb MCP & agent configs 40 14
/.well-known/mcp MCP & agent configs 39 6
/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json MCP & agent configs 37 5
/sign/a20a2ddd-49fd-4df5-864c-a0c388e62db5/a3234042-3bc6-4fac-90d0-e8a434743e0d/waiting-room/eXaICxSk1BBD6JxK7kxztBF50yUmbzViOMKIpWv6GLr0tvxG/heartbeat xAI 37 1
/sign/a20a2ddd-49fd-4df5-864c-a0c388e62db5/a322d122-86ca-4432-8426-e825f6ff8d42/waiting-room/HKYRSq2jhnLSQA5lMmA3RnH5730UY2W4jfJ7l7wTpxAiZaK5/heartbeat xAI 30 20
/mcp MCP & agent configs 24 10
/sign/a20a2ddd-49fd-4df5-864c-a0c388e62db5/a322d122-86ca-4432-8426-e825f6ff8d42/waiting-room/HKYRSq2jhnLSQA5lMmA3RnH5730UY2W4jfJ7l7wTpxAiZaK5 xAI 16 6
/sign/a20a2ddd-49fd-4df5-864c-a0c388e62db5/a3221b97-0d11-4622-b3c3-5708b49fd240/waiting-room/511uM5M0zxTK7xoPgjXAi5lIEa7EJLfdZKPk0i67rDW3QUcY/heartbeat xAI 13 1
/.claude/settings.local.json Anthropic 13 8
/sign/a20a2ddd-49fd-4df5-864c-a0c388e62db5/a3222a42-7d29-4513-8623-e8f37c48bf25/waiting-room/uHvGUISg6wXqu1tkXteQ106VDM1OXAIS8yuxmX9NiU6yRqOX/heartbeat xAI 13 5
/.claude/settings.json Anthropic 13 8
/.env.openai OpenAI 12 7
/.env.anthropic Anthropic 11 6
/.cursor/mcp.json MCP & agent configs 11 6
/sign/a20a2ddd-49fd-4df5-864c-a0c388e62db5/a322fcb2-0261-406d-8e30-9adada95f7b9/waiting-room/pt7YBQMCpRylpnCNZerEabPKux8WmdTUwpVN6Eriyhaafu1L MCP & agent configs 9 3
/storage/photo_uploads/336/F1ZyQi90tDo5tMcpXaD83cMaMfuOwzWBmUlt4ziF.jpeg MCP & agent configs 6 6
/api/mcp/mcp MCP & agent configs 4 1
/api/ucp/mcp MCP & agent configs 4 1
/.well-known/mcp.json MCP & agent configs 4 3
/sign/a20a2ddd-49fd-4df5-864c-a0c388e62db5/a3222a42-7d29-4513-8623-e8f37c48bf25/waiting-room/uHvGUISg6wXqu1tkXteQ106VDM1OXAIS8yuxmX9NiU6yRqOX xAI 4 2
/v1/mcp MCP & agent configs 4 1

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