The Dead Internet Theory is very much alive, as Thales finds bad bots taking up more and more of global internet traffic.

A Thales report found that automated activity now accounts for over half of global internet traffic, with malicious bots nearing 40%. AI-driven bot attacks surged more than twelvefold in 2025, ...

Bots account for 53 per cent of global web traffic in 2025, with AI making them harder to detect. The shift is reshaping how ...

A new report found that bots have surpassed human internet traffic. HUMAN Security's State of AI Traffic report found that automated traffic grew eight times faster than human traffic year-over-year.

AI-driven automation is accelerating machine activity online as bots outpace humans and redefine how the internet operates ...

In brief: Automated bots are a dime a dozen on the modern Internet, performing a variety of tasks ranging from helpful to harmful. What you may not realize is just how prolific bad bots are, and how ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM) (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life online, today released a new State of the Internet ...

The volume of internet traffic stemming from malicious automated software has increased by 2.5% since 2021 to over 30% – the highest figure since Imperva’s first Bad Bot Report in 2013. Billions of ...

In a concerning revelation by the fraud control platform Arkose Labs, about 73% of internet traffic to websites and apps that was analyzed between January and September 2023 has been attributed to ...

Almost half (49.6%) of all internet traffic in 2023 was driven by bots – a 2% increase from the previous year, marking the highest level since cybersecurity firm Imperva began monitoring in 2013. This ...

IBM is partnering with Cloudflare to provide bot management capabilities to help protect IBM Cloud customers' websites from malicious bots and automated threats. The new Cloudflare Bot Management on ...

Investors have been spooked by the arrival of DeepSeek's chatbot, sparking a rout in high-flying tech titans - Copyright AFP GREG BAKER Investors have been spooked by ...