According to TapTechNews on June 26, the cloud computing company Akamai today released a brand-new State of the Internet (SOTI) report, indicating that robot traffic accounts for 42% of the total Internet traffic, of which 65% is malicious traffic.
In the e-commerce field, due to relying on web applications to generate revenue, it is therefore most significantly affected by robot botnet traffic.
Although some robot traffic is beneficial to enterprises, on the whole, this traffic has a negative impact on the user experience, mainly used for web crawlers, information collection, creating counterfeit websites, and so on.
TapTechNews attached the following partial contents of the report
AI botnets have the ability to discover and capture unstructured data and content. In addition, they can also use actual business intelligence to strengthen the decision-making process by collecting, extracting, and processing data.
By seizing product pictures, descriptions, and price information to create counterfeit storefronts or phishing websites aimed at stealing credentials or credit card information, seizing robots can be used to generate more complex phishing activities.
Robots can also be an important tool for wool parties - according to recent research, this accounts for up to 50% in fraud losses.
No matter whether the crawler is for malicious or beneficial purposes, organizations will face technical impacts due to being crawled, including decreased website performance, contaminated website metrics, certificate disclosure attacks from phishing websites, increased computing costs, and so on.