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Red-Teaming for Scraping

Talkat USENIX Security '26 · 2026-08-12..08-14· [security]
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A blueprint for a Scraping Red Team program that measures defense by cost-per-record not alerts, showing concrete results: a black‑box 7‑day engagement using residential proxies and an account pool of 100 test accounts finds four vulnerabilities, exposes PII, and achieves scraping rates like 2 million records in 2 hours; metrics report time to detect 4 hours and time to enforce 12 hours, evasion via account rotation and request throttling, and a required loop of prioritized fixes plus mandatory retesting to validate remediation.

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  1. 0:00Red-teaming for scraping
  2. 1:01Reactive defenses today
  3. 2:25Unauthorized scraping defined
  4. 4:52Offensive and defensive synergy
  5. 6:16Anti-scraping testing models
  6. 7:20Freestyle testing types
  7. 9:05Prioritizing scraping risks
  8. 12:15Threat economics for scraping
  9. 14:21Retesting fixes critical
  10. 16:25Privacy-aware scraped data
  11. 18:31Resilience scorecards
  12. 20:59Red-team engagement case study
  13. 25:14Scraping defense lessons
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