Lighthouse

Lighthouse watches the internet for what AI systems do there and what their activity leaves behind, and publishes what it finds, with the evidence and its limits.

Studies LH042

LH042 sources

Every page fetched for this study on 8 November 2026 (UTC), with the read log's time and HTTP status. Bodies are in data/<directory>/<n>.body, with IPv4 addresses, one quoted key and email addresses withheld as data/SCREENING.md records; sha256_as_fetched in each readlog.csv is the hash of the bytes received. Search results that were not opened are in searchlog.md. The design read of Anthropic's post (WebFetch extract, about 19:08 UTC) is described there; it supplies no count.

file source URL published observation window read (UTC) HTTP use
dash-2026-11-08T1909Z/001 SecurityScorecard DECLAWED page https://declawed.io/ live 2026-11-08T19:09:17Z 200 method text only; counts load from /api/, disallowed (R10); body withheld 9 November 2026 (use=reference), hash and quotations in data/dash-2026-11-08T1909Z/001.withheld.json
dash-2026-11-08T1909Z/002 https://declawed.io/api/stats 2026-11-08T19:09:20Z not fetched: robots.txt disallows
dash-2026-11-08T1909Z/003 Shadowserver dashboard https://dashboard.shadowserver.org/ 2026-11-08T19:09:20Z URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 104] Con unread: connection reset
round1-2026-11-08/001 Xu, Li, Qiu, Sun, arXiv 2609.07115 abstract https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.07115 submitted 2026-09-07 2025-02-14 to 2026-02-13 2026-11-08T19:11:09Z 200 admitted (C05)
round1-2026-11-08/002 the same paper, HTML (IMC 2026) https://arxiv.org/html/2609.07115 2026-09-07 2025-02-14 to 2026-02-13 2026-11-08T19:11:11Z 200 admitted (C01 to C04); its aggregate data release is described but no location is given in the HTML, so the daily series was not found
round1-2026-11-08/003 SentinelLABS, "Silent Brothers" (with Censys) https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/silent-brothers-ollama-hosts-form-anonymous-ai-network-beyond-platform-guardrails/ January 2026 (relayed) 293 days (relayed) 2026-11-08T19:11:14Z 429 unread: HTTP 429; not retried
round1-2026-11-08/004 Censys ARC, "Ollama Drama" https://censys.com/blog/ollama-drama-investigating-the-prevalence-of-ollama-open-instances-with-censys/ 2025-09-24 single-day snapshot 2026-11-08T19:11:16Z 200 admitted (C06, C07)
round1-2026-11-08/005 LeakIX, "12,000 Ollama Instances Exposed" https://blog.leakix.net/2026/02/ollama-exposed/ 2026-02-23 "right now" 2026-11-08T19:11:18Z 200 admitted (C10)
round1-2026-11-08/006 Cisco, "Detecting Exposed LLM Servers" https://blogs.cisco.com/security/detecting-exposed-llm-servers-shodan-case-study-on-ollama 2025-09-01 not stated 2026-11-08T19:11:22Z 200 admitted (C08)
round1-2026-11-08/007 TrendAI (Trend Micro), State of AI Security report https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/news/threat-landscape/fault-lines-in-the-ai-ecosystem-trendai-state-of-ai-security-report 2026-03-03 September to mid-December 2025 2026-11-08T19:11:26Z 200 admitted (C11, C12, C33); MCP 1,467 not admitted (R11)
round1-2026-11-08/008 CyberDesserts, AI infrastructure scanning research https://blog.cyberdesserts.com/ai-infrastructure-scanning-research/ 2026-05-14 (updated July 2026) queries of 2026-05-11 2026-11-08T19:11:29Z 200 admitted (C17 to C19, C30)
round1-2026-11-08/009 ThreatFrontier, Ollama CVE-2026-108836 article https://threatfrontier.com/articles/ollama-pull-api-ssrf-cve-2026-108836-exposed-servers-public-exploit 2026-10-13 relays OpenA2A 2026-11-08T19:11:31Z 200 secondary; led to OpenA2A
round1-2026-11-08/010 Malware Patrol, "Over 14,000 Ollama Instances" https://www.malwarepatrol.net/over-14000-ollama-instances-exposed-to-the-internet-serious-security-implications/ 2025-06-20 not stated 2026-11-08T19:11:34Z 200 admitted (C09)
round1-2026-11-08/011 CSA research note, exposed AI infrastructure https://labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/csa-research-note-exposed-ai-infrastructure-selfhosted-secur/ 2026-05-07 relays Intruder 2026-11-08T19:11:39Z 200 secondary; led to Intruder
round1-2026-11-08/012 arXiv 2505.02502 abstract https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02502 v1 2025-05-05, v2 2025-08-26 as of 2025-04-20 2026-11-08T19:11:41Z 200 context; counts taken from the HTML (round 2)
round1-2026-11-08/013 UpGuard, Ollama instances https://www.upguard.com/blog/understanding-and-securing-exposed-ollama-instances 2025-03-19 2026-11-08T19:11:43Z 200 no count
round1-2026-11-08/014 LeakIX, "What We Found Scanning the Internet in 2026" https://blog.leakix.net/2026/02/appscan-coverage-2026/ 2026-02-09 2026-11-08T19:11:46Z 200 no AI-service count
round1-2026-11-08/015 insecurestack, "Ollama Servers Through the Loupe" https://insecurestack.substack.com/p/eus-exposed-ai-infrastructure 2026-04-07 April 2026 2026-11-08T19:11:49Z 200 admitted (C14)
round1-2026-11-08/016 Censys ARC, "OpenClaw in the Wild" https://censys.com/blog/openclaw-in-the-wild-mapping-the-public-exposure-of-a-viral-ai-assistant/ 2026-01-31 as of 2026-01-31 2026-11-08T19:11:51Z 200 admitted (C37); R12
round1-2026-11-08/017 SecurityScorecard, "Beyond the Hype" https://securityscorecard.com/blog/beyond-the-hype-moltbots-real-risk-is-exposed-infrastructure-not-ai-superintelligence/ 2026-02-09, modified 2026-03-20 24 hours to publication; live text undated 2026-11-08T19:11:53Z 200 admitted (C38 to C40)
round1-2026-11-08/018 SecurityScorecard, "How Exposed OpenClaw Deployments..." https://securityscorecard.com/blog/how-exposed-openclaw-deployments-turn-agentic-ai-into-an-attack-surface/ 2026-02-11 2026-11-08T19:11:56Z 200 no further count
round1-2026-11-08/019 SecurityScorecard, "What Are the Real Security Risks..." https://securityscorecard.com/blog/what-are-the-real-security-risks-of-agentic-ai-and-openclaw/ 2026-02-17 2026-11-08T19:11:58Z 200 no count
round1-2026-11-08/020 Hunt.io, "Hunting OpenClaw Exposures" https://hunt.io/blog/cve-2026-25253-openclaw-ai-agent-exposure 2026-02-03 not stated 2026-11-08T19:12:01Z 200 admitted (C41)
round1-2026-11-08/021 CyberDesserts, "OpenClaw exposure numbers explained" https://blog.cyberdesserts.com/openclaw-exposure-numbers-explained/ 2026-03-31 query of 2026-03-31 2026-11-08T19:12:04Z 200 admitted (C42); relays SecurityScorecard 135,000 (R02)
round1-2026-11-08/022 Censys, "5 Key Takeaways" (State of the Internet 2026) https://censys.com/blog/state-of-the-internet-report-2026 2026-10-14 October 2025 to July 2026 2026-11-08T19:12:06Z 200 admitted (C36); growth stated only as a percentage
round1-2026-11-08/023 Censys, report landing page https://censys.com/2026-state-of-the-internet-report 2026-11-08T19:12:09Z 200 the report sits behind a form; unread
round1-2026-11-08/024 Penligent, "Over 220,000 OpenClaw instances" https://www.penligent.ai/hackinglabs/over-220000-openclaw-instances-exposed-to-the-internet-why-agent-runtimes-go-naked-at-scale/ 2026-10-08 relays 2026-11-08T19:12:12Z 200 secondary (R02 to R04)
round1-2026-11-08/025 CSA research note, OpenClaw Claw Chain https://labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/csa-research-note-openclaw-claw-chain-cve-20260517-csa-style/ 2026-05-17 relays 2026-11-08T19:12:17Z 200 secondary (R05)
round1-2026-11-08/026 Infosecurity Magazine, "40,000+ Exposed OpenClaw" https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/researchers-40000-exposed-openclaw/ 2026-02-09 relays 2026-11-08T19:12:19Z 200 secondary
round1-2026-11-08/027 The Hacker News, Hermes agent https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/hacker-runs-hermes-ai-agent-unattended.html July 2026 relays Hunt.io 2026-11-08T19:12:21Z 200 secondary (R08)
round1-2026-11-08/028 Censys ARC, "MCP Servers on the Internet" https://censys.com/blog/mcp-servers-on-the-internet/ 2026-05-27 as of 2026-04-28; note of 2026-05-06 2026-11-08T19:12:24Z 200 admitted (two counts)
round1-2026-11-08/029 Knostic, "Mapping MCP Servers" https://www.knostic.ai/blog/mapping-mcp-servers-study 2025-07-17 not stated 2026-11-08T19:12:27Z 200 admitted
round1-2026-11-08/030 Pluto Security, "Wide Open" https://pluto.security/blog/wide-open-hundreds-of-mcps-exposing-root-shells-production-data-and-citizen-records-one-call-away/ 2026-09-24 several passes 2026-11-08T19:12:29Z 200 admitted
round1-2026-11-08/031 arXiv 2608.00150, "Exposed by Design" abstract https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00150 2026-07-31 July 2026 2026-11-08T19:12:32Z 200 admitted
round1-2026-11-08/032 Shadowserver, "Accessible ADB Report" description https://www.shadowserver.org/what-we-do/network-reporting/accessible-adb-report/ description updated 2023-12-07 2026-11-08T19:12:34Z 200 method only; its dashboard unread (R15)
round1-2026-11-08/033 chlebda.de, exposed ADB research https://chlebda.de/blog/thousands-android-devices-exposed-adb.html 2026-03-04 a 20 to 30 minute session 2026-11-08T19:12:36Z 200 admitted (partial scope)
round1-2026-11-08/034 Synthient, "A Broken System Fueling Botnets" https://synthient.com/blog/a-broken-system-fueling-botnets 2026-01-02, modified 2026-11-02 not stated 2026-11-08T19:12:40Z 200 admitted (proxy pool); infection estimate as context (R13)
round1-2026-11-08/035 Axios, Censys exclusive https://www.axios.com/2026/10/13/censys-ai-vibe-coding-exposures 2026-10-13 2026-11-08T19:12:43Z 403 unread: HTTP 403
round1-2026-11-08/036 arXiv 2604.19487, IPv6 periphery abstract https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19487 2026-04-21, v3 2026-07-07 2026-11-08T19:12:45Z 200 no count in the abstract
round2-2026-11-08/001 OpenA2A Research, April 2026 exposure sweep https://research.opena2a.org/reports/april-2026-exposure-sweep 2026-04-10 sweep of 2026-04-11 2026-11-08T19:16:46Z 200 admitted (C15, C44)
round2-2026-11-08/002 OpenA2A Research, reports index https://research.opena2a.org/reports 2026-11-08T19:16:49Z 200 list of reports
round2-2026-11-08/003 Intruder, "From enterprise chatbots to gooner caves" https://www.intruder.io/research/from-enterprise-chatbots-to-gooner-caves-exposed-ai-infrastructure-is-rampant 2026-03-27, updated 2026-04-02 not stated 2026-11-08T19:16:51Z 200 admitted (C13, C31, C32); 1 million not admitted (R14)
round2-2026-11-08/004 VMblog, Censys press release https://vmblog.com/news/censys-2026-state-of-the-internet-report-finds-exposed-ai-infrastructure-grew-63-in-nine-months/ 2026-11-08T19:16:54Z 403 unread: HTTP 403
round2-2026-11-08/005 Help Net Security on Censys report https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/15/exposed-ai-infrastructure-report/ 2026-10-15 October 2025 to July 2026 2026-11-08T19:16:56Z 200 secondary (R06, R07)
round2-2026-11-08/006 CSA research note, 36,769 exposed AI endpoints https://labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/csa-research-note-exposed-ai-endpoints-20260915-csa-styled/ 2026-09-15 relays Mysterium 2026-11-08T19:16:59Z 200 secondary; led to Mysterium
round2-2026-11-08/007 arXiv 2505.02502v2 HTML https://arxiv.org/html/2505.02502v2 2025-08-26 as of 2025-04-20 (FOFA) 2026-11-08T19:17:01Z 200 admitted (C22, C25, C26, C34, C35, aggregate)
round2-2026-11-08/008 runZero, Ollama blog https://www.runzero.com/blog/ollama/ 2026-11-08T19:17:04Z 200 no count found
round3-2026-11-08/001 OpenA2A Research, March 2026 exposure sweep https://research.opena2a.org/reports/march-2026-exposure-sweep 2026-03-14 2026-03-14 to 2026-03-20 2026-11-08T19:17:49Z 200 admitted (C16, C43, aggregate); estimate not admitted (R16)
round3-2026-11-08/002 OpenA2A Research, January report (97,000 hosts) https://research.opena2a.org/reports/state-of-ai-agent-security 2026-02-05, corrected 2026-10-06 not stated 2026-11-08T19:17:52Z 200 admitted (aggregate)
round3-2026-11-08/003 OpenA2A Research, FOITW page https://research.opena2a.org/reports/foitw 2026-11-08T19:17:54Z 200 no exposure count used
round3-2026-11-08/004 OpenA2A Research, exposure sweeps archive https://research.opena2a.org/reports/exposure-sweeps June 2026 sweeps 2026-11-08T19:17:56Z 200 method context
round3-2026-11-08/005 OpenA2A Research, methodology https://research.opena2a.org/methodology 2026-11-08T19:17:59Z 200 method of the index (207 queries, category sums, UTC dating, 18 June boundary, ARIA authorship)
round3-2026-11-08/006 OpenA2A, State of AI Agent Security, May 2026 https://research.opena2a.org/reports/state-of-ai-agent-security-2026-05 2026-11-08T19:18:01Z 200 fetched; not used (the index holds the sweeps)
round3-2026-11-08/007 OpenA2A, State of AI Agent Security, October 2026 https://research.opena2a.org/reports/state-of-ai-agent-security-2026-10 2026-11-08T19:18:04Z 200 fetched; not used
round3-2026-11-08/008 Security Affairs on Mysterium VPN https://securityaffairs.com/198898/ai/the-ai-supply-chain-has-a-security-problem-and-much-of-it-is-sitting-on-the-open-internet.html 2026-09-11 relays 2026-11-08T19:18:06Z 200 secondary; led to Mysterium
round4-2026-11-08/001 OpenA2A Research, Exposure Prevalence Index https://research.opena2a.org/indices/exposure-prevalence live; latest sweep 2026-11-01 2026-03-14 to 2026-11-01 2026-11-08T19:18:34Z 200 admitted (series S42 to S45, S57)
round4-2026-11-08/002 OpenA2A Research, indices page https://research.opena2a.org/indices 2026-11-08T19:18:37Z 200 context
round5-2026-11-08/001 Mysterium VPN, "We exposed AI supply chain" https://www.mysteriumvpn.com/blog/data-and-research/we-exposed-ai-supply-chain updated 2026-09-10 queries of 2026-08-30 and 31 (Netlas) 2026-11-08T19:19:33Z 200 admitted

Pages not fetched by rule: the third-party OpenClaw Exposure Watchboard (it lists individual hosts). Pages not found: Bitsight's own OpenClaw post, Hunt.io's own Hermes report, the Ollama paper's aggregate data release, an internet-wide 2025 or 2026 count of exposed ADB other than Shadowserver's (unread). Scanner query interfaces (Shodan, Censys, FOFA, ZoomEye, Netlas, LeakIX) were not used.

From studies/LH042/sources.md in the repository, last changed 9 November 2026.