The internet was built to keep bots out. Now it needs to let them in

For years, the rules of the internet were simple. Humans searched. Bots were blocked. If you ran a website, your job was to ...
Seeking Alpha

Artificial Intelligence Fuels Rise of Hard-to-Detect Bots That Now Make up More Than Half of Global Internet Traffic, According to the 2025 Imperva Bad Bot Report

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 ...
Wired

Bot Hunting Is All About the Vibes

Christopher Bouzy is trying to stay ahead of the bots. As the person behind Bot Sentinel, a popular bot-detection system, he and his team continuously update their machine learning models out of fear ...
Security Boulevard

Why AI Bot Protection and Control Are Essential for Application Security

AI-driven automation is no longer emerging. It is already integrated and accepted as internet traffic. From AI assistants and ...
TechNewsWorld

Bots Now Dominate the Web, and That’s a Problem

Nearly half the traffic on the internet is generated by automated entities called bots, and a large portion of them pose threats to consumers and businesses on the web. “[B]ots can help in creating ...
Dark Reading

The $500,000 Cost of Not Detecting Good vs. Bad Bot Behavior

Bots are a permanent part of the internet. Good, questionable, or malicious bot activity makes up a substantial amount of internet traffic. And bots can perform a variety of both critical and criminal ...
Digital Journal

Heavy traffic: Beware the rise of the Internet bot

Investors have been spooked by the arrival of DeepSeek's chatbot, sparking a rout in high-flying tech titans - Copyright AFP GREG BAKER Investors have been spooked by ...
Business Wire

HUMAN Bot Defender Ranked #1 Vendor in Latest G2 Grid® for Bot Detection and Mitigation

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HUMAN Security, Inc. — the global leader in protecting enterprises by disrupting bot attacks, digital fraud and abuse with modern defense, has secured the top position in ...
Morningstar

Fingerprint Launches Authorized AI Agent Detection to Identify Agentic AI Traffic with 100% Certainty—Accelerating Enterprise Automation and Agentic Commerce

Establishes shared infrastructure for authorized AI agents, including those from OpenAI, AWS AgentCore, Browserbase, Manus and Anchor Browser, making Fingerprint the industry’s leading identifier of ...
TechCrunch

DataDome, which uses AI to protect against bot-based attacks, raises $42M

Online businesses are at risk of bad bot activity, certainly more now than they used to be. According to a survey from Imperva, 42.3% of internet traffic in 2021 wasn’t human, but instead bots that ...
Business Wire

42.3% of Internet Traffic in 2021 Wasn’t Human As Account Takeover and Online Fraud Increases

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imperva, Inc., (@Imperva) the comprehensive digital security leader on a mission to help organizations protect their data and all paths to it, releases the 2022 ...