Malicious bots make up nearly three-quarters of Internet traffic

[TheIrishman]

<< According to fraud control platform Arkose Labs, a staggering 73 percent of Internet traffic to websites and apps measured between January 2023 and September 2023 was related to bots performing malicious activities like SMS toll fraud, scraping, and card testing. Talk about a waste of resources.

The top five bad bot categories in the third quarter included account takeover, scraping, fake account creation, account management, and in-product abuse (inventory hoarding, loyalty points abuse, and the like). These categories were mostly unchanged from Q2, with one exception: in-product abuse replaced card testing.

SMS toll fraud saw the largest quarter-over-quarter increase, up 2,141 percent in Q3 compared to Q2. Attacks on customer support call centers increased 160 percent, the firm observed. From Q1 to Q2, scraping saw the biggest increase at 432 percent.

Arkose Labs said intelligent bot attacks increased 291 percent from Q1 to Q2, and suggested that the use of sophisticated techniques like machine learning and AI to mimic human behavior could be to blame for the spike. When AI and tech fails, some criminals turn to human fraud farms to carry out attacks. >>

https://www.techspot.com/news/101016-malicious-bots-make-up-nearly-three-quarters-internet.html


And it's only gonna get worse. Double down on your security practices, folks!

[Vod]

a staggering 73 percent of Internet traffic to websites and apps measured between January 2023 and September 2023 was related to bots performing malicious activities

Wow.   Imagine if ISPs started enforcing rules against these bots.   Speed would go up, prices would go down.   It won't happen with anonymity though.   

[franky1]

if 73% of a websites visits are bots.. they need better cloudflare package