Detecting Bot Detection: Prevalence, Techniques, and Implications for Web Measurement Research

Browser automation frameworks are essential tools for security and privacy research on the web, yet bot detection scripts increasingly probe their artifacts, threatening measurement validity as automated browsers may be blocked or served different content. Prior work measures detection deployment...

Malicious code in polymarket-trader (npm)

A coordinated supply-chain attack comprising 9 npm packages published by maintainer polymarketdev GitHub actor texsellix, repo texsellix/polymarket-trading-bot within a 2-minute window on 2026-05-20T23:30Z–23:32Z. All packages masquerade as legitimate Polymarket CLOB trading tools while...