Characterizing AI-Assisted Bot Traffic in Darknet Data: Implications for ICS and IIoT Security

The rise of automated scanning tools and AI assisted reconnaissance agents has significantly altered internet background traffic patterns, threatening the baseline assumptions underlying intrusion detection systems IDS deployed in critical infrastructure networks. This paper characterizes the...

How to Protect Your SaaS from Bot Attacks with SafeLine WAF

Most SaaS teams remember the day their user traffic started growing fast. Few notice the day bots started targeting them. On paper, everything looks great: more sign-ups, more sessions, more API calls. But in reality, something feels off: Sign-ups increase, but users aren’t activating. Server cos...

Why Legitimate Bot Traffic Is a Growing Security Blind Spot

Security teams have spent years improving their ability to detect and block malicious bots. That effort remains critical.…...

How Thales Protects Online Retail Sites from AI-Driven Bots during Holiday Shopping Season

Every November and December, online retailers gear up for their biggest revenue surge of the year. But while the traffic and transactions climb, so does the threat level. Cybercriminals know exactly when customer activity and the pressure on retail systems is at its highest and they’re automating...

AI Pulse: How Big Tech Impacts AI Bot Traffic

...

The Rise of the LLM AI Scrapers: What It Means for Bot Management

Explore the rise of LLM AI scrapers and learn how to adapt to growing bot traffic with data-backed insights from our research...

The Rise of the LLM AI Scrapers: What It Means for Bot Management

Explore the rise of LLM AI scrapers and learn how to adapt to growing bot traffic with data-backed insights from our research...

Compromising Bank Customer Trust: The Price of Inadequate Data Protection

Banks hold not just money, but also emotions and aspirations. Countless stories unfold within bank walls, reflecting the intimate connection between money and emotion. Beyond the numbers and transactions, every dollar represents individuals’ hopes, dreams, and livelihoods. As the trusted custodia...

CAPTCHA-Breaking Services with Human Solvers Helping Cybercriminals Defeat Security

Cybersecurity researchers are warning about CAPTCHA-breaking services that are being offered for sale to bypass systems designed to distinguish legitimate users from bot traffic. "Because cybercriminals are keen on breaking CAPTCHAs accurately, several services that are primarily geared toward th...

Preventing Bot Attacks and Online Fraud on APIs

The rapid proliferation of Application Programming Interfaces APIs is spearheading digital transformation, leading to explosive growth in adoption of APIs in recent years. In fact, it’s hard to think of any software that doesn’t use or is in itself, an API. By supporting swift development and...

What We Learned from the 2023 Imperva Bad Bot Report

The 2023 Imperva Bad Bot Report is now available. The 10th edition of the annual report takes a deep dive into the latest bad bot statistics and trends from the past year, providing meaningful information and guidance about the nature and impact of bots. Understanding the risks of unmanaged bot...

Building an Effective Bot Management Strategy

Effectively managing bot traffic requires a combination of strong detection and response strategies. Here, we explore Akamai’s methods for implementing both...

Bots Hide Behind User Privacy – Should You Be Concerned?

Bot operators are perpetually devising innovative techniques to sneak past security as they go about their dubious, often downright illegal business. Emulating human behavior and traffic patterns are key elements of their strategy. One of the many layers comprising this strategy is reporting thei...

Imperva is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Bot Management, Q2 2022

We are thrilled to announce that Imperva has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Bot Management, Q2 2022 report – a trusted source for technology buyers that helps security and risk professionals select the right vendor for their needs in a technology marketplace. The report offers a...

Threat Advisory: E-commerce Bots Use Domain Registration Services for Mass Account Fraud

While researching a recent large-scale bot campaign with CQ Prime Threat Research team lead, Dean Lendrum, we found attackers using domain parking and monetization services to register multiple domains, creating a large number of fake eCommerce accounts per domain. TL; DR ------ Analysis of...

2021 in Review, Part 2: 5 Top Cybersecurity Stories

Ransomware may have dominated headlines in 2021, but it’s only one of many threats security teams must protect against. We’re taking a look back at 5 top cybersecurity stories of 2021 that practitioners wanted to learn more about. 5. The State of Security in eCommerce Why you should learn more...

Fueled by Pandemic Realities, Grinchbots Aggressively Surge in Activity

The festive season is moving into full swing, and so is holiday shopping – including special product launches and sales. But just as we collectively look forward to leisurely browsing for deals from the couch, perhaps with a mug of hot cocoa, “grinchbots” have emerged to burn it all down. Accordi...

Grinchbots strike again this holiday shopping season as bot traffic spikes 73%

The days are getting chilly, holiday drinks are back on the menu at your favorite café and family gatherings are planned. In an almost pavlovian response, Grinchbots have also returned in record levels to ruin your online holiday shopping experience. In the State of Security Within eCommerce in...

Infographic: How Do You Stop Bad Bots?

According to Imperva’s Bad Bot Report 2021, bad bot traffic has maintained its upwards trend, amounting to 25.6 percent of all traffic in 2020, an all-time high. Combined with good bot traffic, 40.8 percent of internet traffic in 2020 wasn’t human, as human traffic decreased by 5.7 percent to 59....

Visualize and Analyze Bots with Real User Monitoring

You interact with more than just customers on your website. Bots make up a disproportionate amount of traffic, which can skew human behavior analysis data -- and cause you to make the wrong business decisions. In fact, one Akamai customer with 30% of total traffic from bots noticed a huge gap in...