Security News > 2021 > March > 372% increase in healthcare bot traffic could tamper with booking vaccine dates

As they do this, Imperva Research Labs has monitored a staggering 372% increase in healthcare bot traffic globally since September 2020.

In February 2021, bot traffic soared 48.8%, the largest increase over the past year, and reaching an unprecedented level over the 12-month average.

The growing trend of bad bot traffic on healthcare websites comes at a time when countries are beginning to expand vaccination operations, and making appointments available to more of the population.

In recent weeks, vaccine websites from Massachusetts to Minnesota have crashed, with an innumerable amount of that traffic potentially coming from bots.

While there are even some helpful services created that determine vaccine availability by using automation, this behavior is still not a human, and would be classified as a bot.

Some helpful bots - developed with good intent - will be deployed as a way to scan appointment booking sites to keep citizens apprised of availability.

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