Security News > 2023 > June > Akamai’s new study: Bots, phishing and server attacks making commerce a cybersecurity hotspot

Attacks on commerce are booming, according to a new study by security firm Akamai.

Bots raining on retail drive flood in commerce attacks.

In its new report, Entering through the Gift Shop: Attacks on Commerce, Akamai determined that 14 billion or 34% of all incursions were against commerce sites, driven by bots, API attacks, remote code execution through local file inclusion attacks and server-side exploits.

Trailing the commerce sector in volume of attacks were high technology at 21.66% of all attacks, financial services at 15.4%, followed by video media, manufacturing, the public sector and gaming.

Figure A. The study, based on petabytes per month of data drawn from Akamai Connected Cloud, a network of approximately 340,000 servers on 1,300 networks in more than 130 countries, found that attacks in Europe, Middle East, Asia and Africa are heavily skewed toward the retail subvertical, which accounts for 96.5% of attacks versus 3.3% for hotel and travel, according to the firm.

In the first quarter this year, Akamai saw commerce trailing only financial services in phishing attacks.

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