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Remember when the Internet used to be a place where people discovered and shared knowledge with others? Those good old days are fast fading, according to cybersecurity software and services company Imperva. In its latest annual report, the company found that bots will account for a staggering 47.4% of all internet traffic in 2022. That’s a 5.1% increase from the 42.3% bad bot traffic observed a year ago, and what a waste of resources.
Imperva divides bot traffic into two categories: bad bot traffic and good bot traffic. Simply put, bad bots are those that run automated tasks in a malicious manner. They can be used to harvest data from websites without permission, or to create distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Some bad bots can even facilitate fraud and theft.
Bad bots can be further categorized. In 2022, the majority – 51.2% of bad bots are considered to have an advanced level of sophistication, followed by simple (33.4%) and medium (15.4%) bots.
Bad robots can affect all industries, but some are more affected than others. According to Imperva, gaming sites, telecommunications and ISPs, legal and government sites, retail pages, financial services, community and social sites, and travel sites were the most affected. The data also showed that bad bots most often targeted sites in the United States. The second most targeted country, Australia, registered less than half as many attacks as the United States.
Good bots, on the other hand, are described as those that perform useful tasks, such as indexing websites for search engines or monitoring website performance.
Human Internet traffic continues to trend downward as bot traffic increases. Human traffic dropped from 57.7% in 2021 to 52.6% last year, according to Imperva. The high point of real traffic occurred in 2019, accounting for 62.8%, but it has been declining since then.
The latest report is Imperva’s 10th annual report. A lot has changed over the past decade, but as the chart above shows, the trendlines are not as predictable as one might think.
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