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Almost half of all global Internet traffic in 2023 was generated by bots.
This is stated in the Imperva Bad Bot Report from Thales.
This is the highest level of bot activity since automated traffic monitoring began in 2013.
Some bots perform useful functions. For example, they index web pages. But most are created for malicious purposes.
The percentage of web traffic associated with malicious bots continues to gradually increase. In 2022 it was 30.2%, and in 2023 – already 32%.
The report also shows that real user traffic has decreased to 50.4% in 2023. Automated traffic costs companies billions of dollars each year due to attacks on websites, APIs and programs.
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Nanhi Singh, general manager of application security at Imperva, a Thales company, spoke about the growing threat. He said:
“Bots are one of the most common and growing threats facing every industry. They have a negative impact on the organization’s profits,” said Thales general manager for security.
The report identified several key trends. On average, global traffic from malicious bots reached 32%. Most:
- in Ireland (71%);
- in Germany (67.5%);
- in Mexico (42.8%).
Account takeover attacks have also become more frequent.
Invasion of AI bots
The report also warns of an increase in artificial intelligence-related bot activity. It found that the rapid adoption of generative artificial intelligence and large language models has led to a rise in the number of simple bots to 39.6% in 2023 from 33.4% in 2022.
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In addition, 17% of them were malicious bots that looked for system vulnerabilities to gain access to sensitive data or user accounts.
The largest share of malicious bots is present in the following areas:
- games (57.2%);
- retail trade (24.4%);
- travel (20.7%);
- financial services (15.7%).
The above data and trends indicate one thing: we can expect even greater growth in traffic generated by bots in the future. Bots are leading to an increase in attacks on accounts, including attacks on application programming interfaces.
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