https://tech.yahoo.com/cybersecurity/articles/report-flags-40-internet-traffic-151500514.html Automated bots now account for over half of global internet traffic, with malicious bots nearing 40% AI‑driven bot attacks surged more than twelvefold in 2025, blurring lines between legitimate automation and abuse A growing share of attacks target APIs, with financial services seeing nearly half of last year’s account takeoversIt’s been a few years now since automated bot activity took up most of global web traffic, but “bad bots” are taking an ever-increasing share of that cake, and with AI agents being thrown into the mix, the problem is only getting more complex.A new report on bot activity, harvested from Thales’ Threat Research and Security Analyst Services teams over 2025 found automated activity now represents more than 53% of all internet traffic, while the remaining 47% fall on human interaction.Bad bots, on the other hand, now take up almost 40% of all global web traffic.
AI-driven bot attacks have surged 12.5 times over the past year, Thales added. This evolution has moved beyond simple scripts for credential stuffing or price scraping and turned bots into sophisticated entities that can mimic human behavior with alarming precision.These "AI agents" are now in a category of their own, interacting directly with applications and APIs to perform complex tasks.As such, they are increasingly blurring the lines between legitimate business automation and malicious intent.“AI is transforming automation from something organizations try to block into something they must also manage,” said Tim Chang, Global Vice President and General Manager, Application Security at Thales.“The challenge is no longer identifying bots. It’s understanding what the bot, agent, or automation is doing, whether it aligns with business intent, and how it interacts with critical systems.”A significant portion of this malicious activity (around 27%) is now targeted specifically at APIs. By bypassing traditional user interfaces, bots can interact with backend systems at machine speed, exploiting business logic and manipulating workflows. The trend is apparently most obvious in the financial services sector, where 46% of all account takeover incidents of last year happened.
>>1510785Thus it's time that /news/ had stricter moderation to eliminate the likes of >>1510553
>>1510791All us bots ain't bad bots.We do reply to thin skinned losers like yourself.
As the shill that infected /news/ has been banned many times previously and has circumvented such, I suggest adding 'Ban Evasion' to the Report list.
>>1510785Jesus christ, how horrifying.
>>1510791you aren't even american
>>1510791>>1510859QED
>>1510785I disagree with this statistics. It's at least 80% and probably much more.
>>1510791>t. bad bot
>>1510812>>1510859>>1510867You have to be over eighteen to use this site.
rangeban india and 90% of the problem goes away overnight
>>1510911This but Russia. Or both.
>>1510785Are you that guy that keeps getting made fun of and then calls everyone a tranny bot?
>>1510919Are you the trannybot that keeps acting like a trannybot?
You're the projecting shill, 1511119
