A new report released today by Thales SA had found that bot traffic now makes up nearly half of all internet traffic globally and that bad bots account for a significant number of those bots. The ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence is behind a significant surge in sophisticated bad bot traffic, which went from bad to worse in the first quarter of this year. Instead of human net surfers, these bad bots ...

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 ...

Automated traffic now accounts for most of the traffic traversing the Web, according to a recently released study. Thales/Imperva's 2025 "Bad Bot Report" found that 37% of all Internet traffic is ...

More than half of all internet traffic is now made up of bots, according to a new report. Analysis by cyber security firm Imperva revealed that automated and AI-powered bots accounted for 51 per cent ...

AI bot attacks increase 10-fold, report reveals - Around 40 per cent of web traffic is now made up of so-called bad bots, report reveals ...

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

Bots made up 53% of web traffic in 2025 as AI-driven attacks surged 12.5x, raising new risks for websites, apps, APIs, and ...

Laptops are useful, but bring with them privacy and security concerns. — Photo: © Tim Sandle. Laptops are useful, but bring with them privacy and security concerns ...

Australia was one of the top three countries targeted by bad bots in 2023, accounting for 8.4% of all bot attacks globally and ranking third behind the US and Netherlands, according to a study by ...