2024-04-17 02:45:28
(ANSA) – ROME, APRIL 16 – 32% of all Internet traffic are malicious bots, automated systems specialized in causing damage to sites, scams, disinformation or invading spam emails: this is according to the Imperva Bad Bot report by Thales which also underlines that traffic due to human users is only 50.4% while thanks also to Artificial Intelligence the general presence of bots (including non-malicious ones) has reached record levels in 2023, with 49.6% of traffic global. “Bots are one of the most pervasive and growing threats facing every industry,” said Nanhi Singh, General Manager, Application Security at Imperva, a Thales Group company. “From simple web scraping to the creation of malicious accounts, to spam and the inability to use network services – he added – bots have a negative impact on organisations, affecting online services and requiring large investments in customer support and infrastructure”. Also thanks to the increasingly sophisticated generative AI models, capable of producing credible texts and content, the traffic generated by bots is constantly growing, with an increase of 2 percentage points compared to 2022, with peaks of malicious bots concentrated in some countries such as Ireland (71%) and Germany (67.5%). These are systems capable of simulating human behavior, evading cyber defenses and even producing serious damage: a particularly serious problem in gaming, with 57.2% of traffic generated by bots, followed by retail sales (24%), travel (21%) and financial services (16%). “Automated bots will soon surpass the percentage of Internet traffic coming from humans, changing the way organizations produce and secure websites and applications,” Singh added. “. (HANDLE).
2024-04-17 02:45:28