Building on an anti-spam cybersecurity tactic known as tarpitting, he created Nepenthes, malicious software named after a carnivorous plant that will "eat just about anything that finds its way ...

Nepenthes is a worm that creates infinite maze-like traps to target crawlers, who scrape data to train large language models (LLMs). The author warns that Nepenthes 'actually eats everything that ...

In short, it’s frustrating! That’s where Nepenthes comes into play, a tool created by Aaron B. and named in homage to those fascinating carnivorous plants that digest their prey in their ...