Did Apple Search engine bot enter the security LLM fuzzing gauntlet

A user-agent string identified as Applebot-Extended has been making a large number of requests to supported sites over the last four weeks. The string has been associated with approximately 20 million requests in that time, or around 500,000 per day. Many of these requests appear to be attempting to probe for vulnerabilities, targeting files such as key.pem and nginx_status. The requests also include attempts to access configuration files like config.yaml. This activity has been observed on sites the user supports, prompting the user to notice the unusual traffic. The user has shared their observation on a comment thread.