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BAD BOTS BECOME ‘ THE PANDEMIC OF THE INTERNET ’
Bad Bot traffic reaches historic levels with organizations urged to invest in protection from malicious automation increasingly mimicking human behaviour .
Bad bots became the ‘ pandemic of the Internet ’ between 2020 – 2021 spreading through increasingly sophisticated automation .
A new report draws a direct parallel between malicious automated software applications and covid saying through inventory hoarding and scraping , bots made it harder for humans to vaccine appointments .
New research from cybersecurity leader Imperva reveals the volume of bad bot grew to 30.2 % over 2022 – an 2.5 % increase over 2021 .
This level of bad bot activity across the Internet was the highest since the creation of the Imperva Bad Bot Report in 2013 .
The 2023 report says that in 2022 , nearly half ( 47.4 %) of all Internet traffic came from bots – a 5.1 % increase over the previous year .
The proportion of human traffic ( 52.6 %) decreased to its lowest level in eight years .
For the fourth consecutive year , the volume of bad bot traffic grew to 30.2 % – a 2.5 % increase over 2021 .
Overall , the level of bad bot activity across the Internet in 2022 was the highest since the creation of the report .
Imperva was a pioneer in documenting these annual trends for the purpose of raising awareness about the business risk associated with bad bot activity .
Over 2020 and 2021 , the report references bad bots as the pandemic of the Internet as automation became more sophisticated . Through inventory hoarding and scraping , bots made it harder for humans to schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments or purchase gaming consoles .
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