The Dead Internet Theory is very much alive, as Thales finds bad bots taking up more and more of global internet traffic.

Methodology The 2026 Thales Bad Bot Report analyzes full-year 2025 bot activity using data from Thales Threat Research and ...

HUMAN Security's State of AI Traffic report found that bots have eclipsed human users, with automated traffic growing eight times faster than human activity.

The number of cyber attacks on the internet carried out by artificial intelligence bots has increased more than 10-fold over ...

In a concerning revelation by the fraud control platform Arkose Labs, about 73% of internet traffic to websites and apps that was analyzed between January and September 2023 has been attributed to ...

In brief: Automated bots are a dime a dozen on the modern Internet, performing a variety of tasks ranging from helpful to harmful. What you may not realize is just how prolific bad bots are, and how ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM) (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life online, today released a new State of the Internet ...

The volume of internet traffic stemming from malicious automated software has increased by 2.5% since 2021 to over 30% – the highest figure since Imperva’s first Bad Bot Report in 2013. Billions of ...

Automated and malicious traffic rises for a fifth consecutive year MEUDON, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Thales, the cybersecurity leader that protects critical applications, APIs, and data, anywhere at ...

Almost half (49.6%) of all internet traffic in 2023 was driven by bots – a 2% increase from the previous year, marking the highest level since cybersecurity firm Imperva began monitoring in 2013. This ...

IBM is partnering with Cloudflare to provide bot management capabilities to help protect IBM Cloud customers' websites from malicious bots and automated threats. The new Cloudflare Bot Management on ...

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 ...