In an online realm where the number of site visitors often dictates the perceived success and reach of a website, the allure of boosting one's visitor count is strong. Enter the controversial traffic ...

A new report released today by cloud cybersecurity firm Barracuda Networks Inc. finds that half of all internet traffic is now bot traffic and that bad bots contribute to 30% of traffic. The report ...

I’ve said for years, anyone can find and reduce fraud if they know where to look and what to look for. I’ve also served many publishers, large and small, over the years. Even if they don’t have ...

It happened last year for the first time: bot traffic eclipsed human traffic, according to the bot-trackers at Incapsula. This year, Incapsula says 61.5 percent of traffic on the web is non-human. Now ...

Look around you, people of the internet. The bots. They’re everywhere. Most website visitors aren’t humans, but are instead bots—or, programs built to do automated tasks. They are the worker bees of ...

Roughly half of all Web traffic comes from bots and crawlers, and that’s costing companies a boatload of money. That’s one finding from a report released Thursday by DeviceAtlas, which makes software ...

In an update to Google Analytics, bot traffic will be automatically filtered out of reports for Web + App properties. “In App + Web properties, traffic from bots and spiders is automatically excluded.

It’s no secret that mobile — and specifically Android — is becoming a major vector for malware. The result of this, according to a new report from CAPTCHA-based advertising firm Solve Media, is that ...

Rise in accessible AI tools significantly lowered the barrier to entry for cyber attackers, enabling them to create and deploy malicious bots at scale For the first time in a decade, automated traffic ...