Security News > 2021 > September > 39% of all internet traffic is from bad bots

Automated traffic takes up 64% of internet traffic - and whilst just 25% of automated traffic was made up by good bots, such as search engine crawlers and social network bots, 39% of all traffic was from bad bots, a Barracuda report reveals.

These bad bots include both basic web scrapers and attack scripts, as well as advanced persistent bots.

The report also included a breakdown of bad bot traffic by location.

This is likely because it is easy to set up a free account with either provider, and then use the account to set up the bad bots.

Finally, researchers observed that bad bot traffic tends to follow the standard workday, allowing them to hide within normal human traffic streams to avoid raising alarm bells.

Nitzan Miron, VP of Product Management, Application Security, Barracuda said: "While some bots like search engine crawlers are good, our research shows that over 60% of bots are dedicated to carrying out malicious activities at scale. When left unchecked, these bad bots can steal data, affect site performance, and even lead to a breach. That's why it's critically important to detect and effectively block bot traffic."

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