The volume of internet traffic attributed to malicious automation software has increased by 2.5% since 2021, reaching over 30%. This is the highest number since Imperva’s first release. Bad bot report in 2013.
Imperva, the latest in a long-running report, finds that billions of dollars are lost each year due to account compromise, data theft, spam, rising infrastructure and support costs, customer churn and malicious bot attacks that can degrade online services. claimed to be at loss.
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Imperva says this traffic is becoming increasingly difficult to identify, with “advanced” malicious bots now making up 51% of all malicious traffic, up from 26% two years ago. warned.
More sophisticated software tries to mimic human behavior to evade detection, such as cycling random IPs, breaking in through anonymous proxies, and changing identities, Imperva said. I’m here.
Account Takeover (ATO) attacks are one of the most common attacks attributed to malicious bots and will grow in volume by 2022 as cybercriminals seek to promote credential stuffing and brute force attacks. 155% increase. About 15% of all login attempts last year were classified as his ATO.
APIs remained a popular target for malicious bots last year, with 17% of all attacks against APIs exploiting design or implementation flaws in APIs or applications to steal sensitive data or gain access to accounts. It was caused by malicious software that
More than half of the countries analyzed in the Imperva report have levels of malicious bots above the global average, with Germany (69%), Ireland (45%) and Singapore (43%) in the top three . In the US, its share was slightly above average at 32%.
Travel (25%), retail (21%), and financial services (13%) experienced the highest volume of malicious bot attacks, while gaming (59%) and telecommunications (48%) saw the largest share of malicious bot traffic. had the highest share. According to Imperva, their website and application are:
Karl Triebes, senior vice president and general manager of application security at Imperva, argued that the rise of generative AI will intensify the impact of malicious bots.
“All organizations, regardless of size or industry, should be concerned about the increasing amount of malicious bots on the internet,” he added.
“The percentage of bot traffic is increasing year on year, and the disruption caused by malicious automation is tangible, from brand reputation issues to reduced online sales to security risks in web applications, mobile apps and APIs. It poses a business risk.”
