The report found that bot attacks increased by 167 percent in the first half of the year, with a staggering 291 percent increase in intelligent bots.

New study finds bots and fraud farms responsible for 73% of web traffic::undefined

  • Syrc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Well, I mean, if a bot protection company found malicious activity in account creation, I’m assuming they stopped the account from completing it…?

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m assuming they stopped the account from completing it…?

      They could have let it continue to monitor it, in a honey-pot sort of way, to learn more about the bot, and it’s network.

      But I was asking towards intent, not success. Why would people have bots create accounts and then do absolutely nothing with those accounts afterwards?