Security News > 2023 > November > Cybercriminals turn to ready-made bots for quick attacks

Researchers assessed the attacks across three primary attack vectors: basic bots, intelligent bots, and human fraud farms.

The analysis found bot attacks overall increased 167% in the H1 of 2023, weighted heavily by a 291% increase in intelligent bots.

"We're seeing more attacks, using more intelligent bots, conducting more sophisticated types of attacks. Fake account registration, credential stuffing, scraping, SMS toll fraud-these are the types of attacks that fraudsters use as the first steps to more harmful crimes. They lead to romance scams that groom for human trafficking, money laundering from drug deals, or theft to fund illegal weapons," Gosschalk continued.

Gosschalk added, "The massive rise of CaaS has completely changed the economics for adversaries. It's much cheaper to attack companies and the attacks are just better because it's a dev shop that is doing the attacks instead of just individual cybercriminals."

With so much traffic to digital properties made up of malicious attacks, Arkose Labs researchers delved more deeply into the specific industries under attack.

The report lists the following as the industries that had more than 50% of traffic coming from bad bots and details common attacks carried out by malicious bots.

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