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40% of traffic to ecommerce sites comes from bots raising cyber security threat level

9 Nov 2022

In the past 12 months, nearly 40% of traffic on retailers’ websites didn’t come from a human. Instead, it came from a bot– and...

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42.3% of internet traffic in 2021 wasn’t human, as bad bots target retail in online fraud surge

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18 May 2022

by Paul Skeldon

Almost half the traffic on the internet to commercial websites are ‘bad bots’ bent on fraud and the retail industry is particularly vulnerable a study...

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40% of traffic to ecommerce sites comes from bots raising cyber security threat level

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42.3% of internet traffic in 2021 wasn’t human, as bad bots target retail in online fraud surge

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