AI-driven bot traffic has surged in the past year, often they scrape content to serve their operator’s needs only without […]
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Cloudflare report shows how AI bots, encryption, and growing attacks shaped the internet in 2025
Cloudflare has released its 2025 Radar Year in Review, the sixth annual report examining broad trends in internet traffic, security, […]
Threat actors move to smaller more persistent attacks
Threat actors are favoring smaller, persistent attacks under 100,000 requests per second according to a new report. This shift signals […]
Beyond detecting bots — in the age of AI, it’s all about intent
For the past two decades, cybersecurity teams have been laser focused on identifying ‘what’s bot — and what’s not’. Over […]
AI makes bots easier to deploy and harder to detect
Automated bot traffic surpassed human-generated traffic for the first time in a decade last year, making up 51 percent of […]
The rise of the ‘gray bots’ targeting websites for data
We all know about good bots like search engine crawler bots, SEO bots, and customer service bots. And we know […]
AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Making AI crawlers squirm Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon. Last summer, Anthropic inspired backlash when […]