Rise in accessible AI tools significantly lowered the barrier to entry for cyber attackers, enabling them to create and deploy malicious bots at scale For the first time in a decade, automated traffic ...

Experts are sounding the alarm over YouTube’s deepfake detection tool — a new safety feature that could allow Google to train its own AI bots with creators’ faces, according to a report. The tool ...

Large language model (LLM) crawlers are harvesting content at scale for training and redistribution, the result often being IP theft, SEO dilution and lost revenue. Yet 68% of media and publishing ...

Automated traffic now accounts for most of the traffic traversing the Web, according to a recently released study. Thales/Imperva's 2025 "Bad Bot Report" found that 37% of all Internet traffic is ...

Friday’s Adalytics report about ads being served en masse to known bots leaves plenty of unanswered questions. But they mainly boil down to this: How could so many different verification providers and ...

Social bots are automated or semi-automated accounts that interact, post and replicate human behaviour across online social networks. Their presence spans marketing, political campaigning and the ...

Bots made up 53% of web traffic in 2025 as AI-driven attacks surged 12.5x, raising new risks for websites, apps, APIs, and fraud teams.

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says bots now generate more web traffic than humans, marking a fundamental shift in how the ...