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Bots are Increasingly Rampant in Cyberspace, This is The Danger
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Bots are Increasingly Rampant in Cyberspace, This is The Danger

Morrissey Technology – The Akamai report states that 42% of internet traffic is generated by bots, and shockingly, 65% of those bots are used for crime. In this report, Akamai deliberately researched data scavenger bots circulating in cyberspace. This bot is designed to collect data and content for use by cybercrime.

The e-commerce sector is considered to be the most affected by the actions of data scavenger bots and high-risk traffic bots. It must be admitted, there are indeed bots that can be profitable, but these scavenger bots often have a negative impact, especially on consumers. This is because data scavenger bots are used to spy on rival stores, stockpile goods, create fraudulent sites, and various other criminal activities.

Akamai CTO Patrick Sullivan explained that bots are a significant problem, because they can create a number of targets for web applications, services and application programming interface (API) owners.

For example, data-scavenging bots can easily steal product images, descriptions, pricing information, and other data. Then this data can be used by cybercriminals to create fake sites to imitate ecommerce sites from well-known brands.

In fact, now with the presence of AI, the data taken by bots can be slightly modified to create a site that generates traffic — and is then used to make money through advertising revenue.

Bots with AI are also more difficult to detect. For example, AI botnets, which can function with unstructured data. According to Akamai, with the use of AI, criminals can collect, extract and process data more efficiently.

Lastly, bots can also be used to create fake accounts, which can then be used to target victims financially. Even the most innocuous scavenging bot can be used to degrade a site’s performance, impact search engine impact calculations, and also increase the computing and hosting costs of a site.

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Be Alert, Almost Half of Internet Traffic is Controlled by Bots

Morrissey Technology – Bots and spam have now become an inseparable part of internet life. But who would have thought that the presence of bots would almost displace organic internet traffic from human users. According to the ‘2024 Bad Bot Report’ released by cybersecurity expert Imperva, bots already control 49.6% of all internet traffic. Worse, 32% of all internet traffic is now flooded by rogue bots.

“Bots are one of the most entrenched and growing threats every industry faces,” said Minerva General Manager Application Security, Nanhi Singh.

“From simple web scraping to things like account takeover, spam and denial of service, bots have a negative impact on an organization’s bottom line,” he continued.

Imperva finds rogue bot traffic. Rogue bot traffic varies greatly depending on the country. For example, Ireland is in first place with 72% of its traffic controlled by bots, followed by Germany (67.5%) and Mexico (42.8%).

Bots are not only found on social media but also in video games. According to Imperva’s findings, bot activity in the gaming world is among the largest among all sectors with 57.2% of total traffic. Other sectors that are heavily populated by bots include retail (24.4% of total traffic), travel FOR4D (20.7%), and financial services (15.7%).

Furthermore, Imperva said that rogue bots that are increasingly sophisticated and can imitate human behavior and avoid detection are often found on legal and government websites, entertainment and financial services.

This report further strengthens the ‘Dead Internet’ theory. This theory argues that organic, human-made content has been replaced by content created by artificial intelligence (AI) which is now flooding the internet and the accounts that interact with this content are also bots.

“As the number of AI-enabled tools increases, the presence of bots will become more widespread. Organizations must invest in bot management and API security tools to manage threats from malicious automated traffic,” said Singh.