2022 Imperva Bad Bot Report

Imperva Threat Research team estimates that 27.7% of online traffic is bad bots. These bad bots are now more advanced and evasive than ever, mimicking human behavior in ways that make them harder to detect and prevent. They allow bot operators, attackers, unsavory competitors, and fraudsters to perform a wide array of malicious activities. Web scraping, competitive data mining, personal and financial data harvesting, scalping, account takeover fraud, spam and transaction fraud are just a few of these activities. The 2022 Imperva Bad Bot Report covers:

• The latest trends we’re seeing in bad bot activity
• How to diagnose a bad bot problem
• An in-depth analysis of the bad bot threat landscape across industries, sophistication levels, origin and more
• Steps you can take to protect your business