![]() ![]() 75% of bad bots were Advanced Persistent Bots (APBs).For the first time, Mobile Safari made the top five list of self reported user agents, outranking Web Safari. 16% of bad bots self-reported as mobile users.Amazon is the top originating Internet Service Provider (ISP) for the third year in a row, with 16% of all bad bot traffic - four times more than the next ISP. 60% of bad bots come from data centers, as opposed to residential or mobile.76% of bad bots lie about coming from the most popular browsers, including Chrome, Safari Internet Explorer and Firefox.Bad bots alone were responsible for 20% of web traffic and increasingly impact large websites. 40% of all web traffic in 2016 originated from bots. ![]() "Website defenders should be worried because once bad bots are behind the login page, they have access to even more sensitive data for scraping and greater opportunity to successfully carry out transaction fraud." "Massive credential dumps like Ashley Madison and Yahoo, coupled with the increasing sophistication of bad bots, has created a world where bad bots are running rampant on websites with accounts," said Rami Essaid, CEO and co-founder of Distil Networks. ![]() Bad bots are used by competitors, hackers and fraudsters and are the key culprits behind web scraping, brute force attacks, competitive data mining, online fraud, account hijacking, data theft, spam, digital ad fraud, and downtime. The report found that websites requiring a login are almost certain to be attacked by bad bots, with 96 percent of such sites targeted by malicious bots. Today, Distil released its fourth Bad Bot Report titled, "The 2017 Bad Bot Report: If You Build It, They Will Come." It serves as the IT security industry's most in-depth analysis on the sources, types and sophistication levels of 2016's bot activity. SAN FRANCISCO, CA -(Marketwired - March 16, 2017) - Almost every website with a login page is under attack from bad bots, the automated programs used by hackers, fraudsters and competitors to carry out a variety of nefarious activities, according to a new report from Distil Networks, Inc., the global leader in bot detection and mitigation. ![]()
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