The Dead Internet Theory is very much alive, as Thales finds bad bots taking up more and more of global internet traffic.

Last year, 40.8% of all web traffic requests were not human, underscoring the growing scale of bot traffic across the Internet, Imperva Research Labs, a research group within security software and ...

Over the past year, AI agents have gone from research demos to production deployments. Companies are using them to log into ...

Bots account for 53 per cent of global web traffic in 2025, with AI making them harder to detect. The shift is reshaping how ...

For the first time on record, automated bots generated more internet traffic than human beings in 2025, and the hostile share ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM) (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life online, today released a new State of the Internet ...

Google expands reCAPTCHA to "Cloud Fraud Defense," a platform against fraud and abuse that also detects AI agents.

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.

A new report out today from edge cloud platform provider Fastly Inc. has found that bot traffic continues to reshape the modern web, as artificial intelligence crawlers, fetchers and increasingly ...

The share of global web traffic generated by humans is shrinking, while bot activity is on the rise, according to Imperva Bad Bot Reports. In 2018, humans still accounted for 62% of web traffic, with ...

Bots get a bad rap. They’re paralyzing web sites, scraping unique content, and taking over the Internet, right? It’s true, bad bots can do a lot of damage, but what about the good ones? We’re often ...