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   Bots now account for over half of all internet traffic   
      
   Date:   
   Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:14:00 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   With the growth GenAI, bad bots are growing in number, experts warn.   
      
   FULL STORY   
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    - In 2024, 51% of all internet traffic fell on bots, Thales report claims   
    - Not all bots are malicious, but many are   
    - Travel and retail industries are particularly hit   
      
   Bots, automated programs that run tasks over the internet, are now taking up   
   more than half of all internet traffic, new research has claimed.    
      
   The 2025 Imperva Bad Bot Report found this was the first time in a decade    
   that 51% of all web traffic constituted bot traffic, attributing the shift   
   largely to the rise of Artificial intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models   
   (LLM).    
      
   The Imperva report focuses, first and foremost, on bad bots. It argues that   
   travel and retail sectors face an advanced bot problem, where bad bots make    
   up 41% and 59% of all traffic, respectively. In 2024, the travel industry was   
   the most attacked sector with 27% of all bot attacks (up from 21% the year   
   prior).    
      
   Bad bots    
      
   With the proliferation of Generative AI , things are only going to get worse,   
   Imperva further states. ByteSpider Bot alone is apparently responsible for   
   more than half (54%) of all AI-enabled attacks. Other significant    
   contributors include AppleBot (26%), ClaudeBot (13%), and ChatGPT User Bot   
   (6%).    
      
   Not all bot traffic is malicious, though. There are many useful, and often   
   essential bots, such as search engine crawlers, monitoring bots, social media   
   bots, or data scraping bots. They are used to index websites for search   
   engines, check websites for performance or downtime, schedule posts or    
   respond automatically, or to aggregate sites and scrape valuable data.    
      
   Still, bad bots take up a hefty portion of all bot traffic, presenting a real   
   challenge for the cybersecurity community.    
      
   These tools, whose popularity exploded roughly three years ago with the   
   introduction of Chat-GPT, have simplified the creation and scaling of   
   malicious bots, Imperva noted.    
      
   As AI tools become more accessible, cyber criminals are increasingly   
   leveraging these technologies to create and deploy malicious bots which now   
   account for 37% of all internet traffic  a significant increase from 32% in   
   2023, the company explained.    
      
   This is the sixth consecutive year of growth in bad bot activity, posing   
   security challenges for organizations striving to safeguard their digital   
   assets.   
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/bots-now-account-for-over-half-of-all-i   
   nternet-traffic   
      
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