Bad Bot Report från Thales

2025-01-29

The 2024 Imperva Bad Bot Report underscores how the bot problem has become a real business problem. As automated traffic continues to grow, nearly equaling the volume of internet traffic from humans, organizations must invest in effective bot management and API security tools to protect their websites, APIs, and mobile applications from malicious, automated traffic. Key takeaways from this year’s report, include:

  • Malicious Automated Traffic Continues to Increase: Bad bots alone account for nearly a third of all traffic, at 32%, with their volume increasing for the fifth consecutive year.
  • Generative AI Fuels the Rise in Simple Bad Bots: Simple bad bot traffic grew from 33.4% of all bad bot traffic in 2022 to 39.6% in 2023. Less technical individuals can now write basic bot scripts using AI tools.
  • Account Takeover Remains a Persistent Business Risk: ATO attacks increased by 10% in 2023, with 44% of all ATO attacks targeting API endpoints.

APIs are a Popular Vector for Attack: Automated threats were responsible for 30% of API attacks in 2023. Cybercriminals increasingly rely on automated bots to discover and exploit APIs, which provide a direct pathway to sensitive data. Because of their machine-readable nature, APIs are becoming more vulnerable to bad bot attacks, and a lack of visibility into API traffic makes it difficult to detect them.

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