The 2024 Imperva Threat Research report reveals that almost 50% of internet traffic comes from non-human sources. Bad bots, in particular, now comprise nearly one-third of all traffic. Bad bots have become more advanced and evasive and now mimic human behavior in such a way that it makes them difficult to detect and prevent.
Bad bots are exploiting business logic instead of technical vulnerabilities, which allows them to perform a host of malicious activities, including transaction fraud, web scraping, and data harvesting.
The 2024 Bad Bot Report provides: