Internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare is launching a suite of tools that could help shift the power dynamic between AI companies and the websites they crawl for data. Today it’s giving all of its ...

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 ...

Most threats in any digital environment come from bots or botnets. While some bots are useful, some mimic human behavior with evil intentions. These malicious bots hoard resources, perform account ...

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Cloudflare, the publicly traded cloud service provider, has launched a new, free tool to prevent bots from scraping websites hosted on its platform for data to train AI models. Some AI vendors, ...

Six months ago, I wrote about the AI bots crisis facing publishers: Traffic is plummeting, unauthorized scraping is surging and the industry is scrambling to protect its assets. The problem of ...

Automated traffic now accounts for most of the traffic traversing the Web, according to a recently released study. Thales/Imperva's 2025 "Bad Bot Report" found that 37% of all Internet traffic is ...

On the bot-riddled open web, it can be a struggle to prevent ads from being served to invalid traffic (IVT). To filter out IVT and prevent ad serving to bots, the ad industry focuses on data contained ...

How much online traffic is real? The age of automation and AI has given added importance to this question. As much as 51% of all Web traffic in 2024 was automated, according to the 2025 Thales Bad Bot ...

Social bots are automated or semi-automated accounts that interact, post and replicate human behaviour across online social networks. Their presence spans marketing, political campaigning and the ...