No. AE isn't taking any actions against botting. (only if you're really obvious they ban you, to satisfy the legit players) They did that in the past, and reverted cause they where losing too many players.
I'm almost certain this is yet another Cache file problem.
I can login fine on Grimoire 3.8, but 3.6 seems to be 'broken' for me too.
I've tried a couple things, but haven't been able to solve it so far.
I'll keep trying though, and update when I find a solution. If someone else knows more, enlighten us though