In 2022 , nearly half ( 47.4 %) of all Internet traffic came from bots , a 5.1 % increase over the previous year . www . intelligentciso . com
cyber trends
• In 2014 , Imperva monitored one of the first examples of bots exploiting mobile browser settings to more easily scrape data . This was an earlier indicator that bot operators were adapting for mobile web and application environments .
• In 2015 , the sophistication of bad bots soared 11 %. Bot operators used a single bot to cycle through many IP addresses to make a single request while disguising their identity .
• In 2016 , as mobile device usage grew , bad bots quickly
adapted . For the first time , mobile Safari was one of the leading self-reported user agents , while the volume of bots claiming to be mobile browsers increased 42.78 %.
• In 2020 and 2021 , bad bots became the pandemic of the Internet as automation became more sophisticated . Through inventory hoarding and scraping , bots made it harder for humans to purchase gaming consoles or schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments .
In 2022 , nearly half ( 47.4 %) of all Internet traffic came from bots , a 5.1 % increase over the previous year . www . intelligentciso . com
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