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

  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    7 months ago

    The headline stat is a misinterpretation of the study

    and 76% of activity on the login/account creation was malicious.

    Are you assuming though that that’s 76%, once they’ve created an account, would do no fuether interaction with the Internet after that?

    I’m not sure of the point that you’re trying to make?

    • designatedhacker@lemm.eeEnglish
      61·
      7 months ago

      You think these bots are streaming movies and music? 73% of Internet traffic is not bots. It’s all YouTube, Netflix, Insta, TikTok, Spotify, etc media consumption. 73% of login traffic may be bots, but it’s a teeny drop of global traffic.

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        7 months ago

        73% of login traffic may be bots, but it’s a teeny drop of global traffic.

        So you are assuming they’re just logging in and not doing anything else, yes?

        That there are no bots that (for example) watch YouTube videos and then gives them a like up or down, depending how they’ve been paid to do so, etc?

    • Syrc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 months 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…?