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

    • indepndnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      It amazes me when I spin up some random server on a cloud provider and it’s immediately getting tons of traffic from bots searching for insecure ssh servers and default WordPress admin credentials and then like. If that’s the short of stuff they’re counting, I’d believe it. But yeah, it’s not like all the commenters on this post are bots.

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        But yeah, it’s not like all the commenters on this post are bots.

        What percentage would you guess that are bots as commenters?