Key Findings from the 2023 Imperva Bad Bot Report: As a result, the business disruption and financial impact associated with bad bots will become even more significant in the coming years.” “Cybercriminals will increase their focus on attacking API endpoints and application business logic with sophisticated automation. “Bots have evolved rapidly since 2013, but with the advent of generative artificial intelligence, the technology will evolve at an even greater, more concerning pace over the next 10 years,” says Karl Triebes, Senior Vice President and GM, Application Security, Imperva. Through inventory hoarding and scraping, bots made it harder for humans to purchase gaming consoles or schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments. In 20, bad bots became the pandemic of the internet as automation became more sophisticated.For the first time, mobile Safari was one of the leading self-reported user agents, while the volume of bots claiming to be mobile browsers increased 42.78%. In 2016, as mobile device usage grew, bad bots quickly adapted.Bot operators used a single bot to cycle through many IP addresses to make a single request while disguising their identity. In 2015, the sophistication of bad bots soared 11%.This was an earlier indicator that bot operators were adapting for mobile web and application environments. In 2014, Imperva monitored one of the first examples of bots exploiting mobile browser settings to more easily scrape data.It was created by a single individual and sent over a million emails as part of a phishing scam. The EarthLink Spammer, one of the world’s first botnets, was discovered in 2000.Reflecting on the 10th anniversary of the Imperva Bad Bot Report, this year’s report documents milestones in the evolution of bad bot technology. Imperva was a pioneer in documenting these annual trends for the purpose of raising awareness about the business risk associated with bad bot activity. Collectively, billions (USD) are lost annually as a result of automated attacks on organizations’ websites, infrastructure, APIs, and applications.ĭocumenting 10 Years of Bot Evolution and the Rise of Automated Attacksįor the past decade, the annual Imperva Bad Bot Report has provided security and business leaders with useful and practical information about the evolution of bot technology and automated traffic. Malicious bot activity is a significant risk for businesses as it can result in account compromise, data theft, spam, higher infrastructure and support costs, customer churn, and degraded online services. The staggering level of bad bot activity across the internet in 2022 was the highest since the creation of the Imperva Bad Bot Report in 2013. The proportion of human traffic (52.6%) decreased to its lowest level in eight years.įor the fourth consecutive year, the volume of bad bot traffic - malicious automated software applications capable of high-speed abuse, misuse, and attacks - grew to 30.2%, a 2.5% increase over 2021. In 2022, nearly half (47.4%) of all internet traffic came from bots, a 5.1% increase over the previous year. Imperva, Inc., the cybersecurity leader that protects critical applications, APIs, and data, anywhere at scale, releases the 2023 Imperva Bad Bot Report, a global analysis of automated bot traffic across the internet.
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