42.3% of Internet Traffic in 2021 Wasn’t Human As Account Takeover and Online Fraud Increases
Bad bots are often the first indicator of online fraud and represent a risk to digital businesses, as well as their customers. In 2021, evasive bad bots -- a grouping of moderate and advanced bad bots that elude standard security defenses -- made up 65.6% of all bad bot traffic. This breed of bot uses the latest evasion techniques, including cycling through random IPs, entering through anonymous proxies, changing identities, and mimicking human behavior to evade detection.
- The three most common bot attacks were account takeover (ATO), content or price scraping, and scalping to obtain limited availability items.
- Bad bots are often the first indicator of online fraud and represent a risk to digital businesses, as well as their customers.
- In 2021, evasive bad bots -- a grouping of moderate and advanced bad bots that elude standard security defenses -- made up 65.6% of all bad bot traffic.
- Key Findings from the 2022 Imperva Bad Bot Report:
Account takeover increased 148% in 2021: In 2021, 64.1% of ATO attacks used an advanced bad bot.