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Bad bot traffic has increased compared to previous years, comprising almost one quarter of all website traffic and most heavily impacting the financial services industry, according to Imperva. In 2019, bad bot traffic comprised 24.1% of all website traffic, rising 18.1% from the year prior.
Released Tuesday, Imperva's "2020 Bad Bot Report: The Bad Bots Strike Back" looks at how bad bots play a role in website activity and how website owners can protect themselves against these threats. In its research, Imperva found that traffic from bad bots accounted for one-quarter of all website traffic in 2019, a jump of 18% from the prior year.
Researchers have uncovered the biggest connected-TV ad fraud operation they've ever seen, fueled with fake ad views seen by bogus eyeballs that actually belonged to a bot network they named ICEBUCKET. Bot-mitigation security firm White Ops said on Thursday that at its peak - January 2020 - the ICEBUCKET bot operation impersonated more than 2 million people in over 30 countries. ICEBUCKET also cooked up 300 publishers out of thin air, then stole advertising dollars by tricking advertisers into thinking there were real people on the other side of the screen.
Shadowserver provides free daily live feeds of information about systems that are either infected with bot malware or are in danger of being infected to more than 4,600 ISPs and to 107 national computer emergency response teams in 136 countries. Last week, Shadowserver was instrumental in helping Microsoft kneecap the Necurs malware network, one of the world's largest spam and malware botnets.
Imperva, the cybersecurity leader championing the fight to secure data and applications wherever they reside, announced Advanced Bot Protection, a new solution that fully integrates its industry-leading bot management technology into the Imperva Cloud Application Security solution. Integrating the solution into Imperva Cloud Application Security delivers best-in-class bot capabilities in a single security stack, giving customers true defense-in-depth security through Imperva's market-leading DDoS, WAF and bot solutions.
White Ops, the global leader in bot mitigation, announced the release of Application Integrity, a new offering designed to protect enterprises from sophisticated bot-based threats including account takeover, automated account creation, and web scraping. Leveraging the industry leadership the company has fostered with its Advertising Integrity and Marketing Integrity products that today verify the humanity of more than 1 trillion interactions per week, Application Integrity enables security teams to best protect their applications from sophisticated bot attacks.
White Ops, the global leader in bot mitigation, announced the formation of the Satori Threat Intelligence and Research Team, a specialized team dedicated to researching the threats and trends that organizations are facing from sophisticated bot attacks. The primary focus for the Satori team is offering data-driven, evidence-based guidance and context on investigations and actionable recommendations to responses on bot attacks for White Ops' clients and security practitioners.
Cyborgs, trolls and bots can fill the internet with lies and half-truths. WAR OF THE BOTS AND CYBORGS. The disposable foot soldiers in this digital conflict are bots.
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