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

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

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

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 ...

Most of today’s organizations rely on e-commerce capabilities and customer-facing web applications to keep their businesses running. While new innovations related to web applications are being ...

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 Thales report found that automated activity now accounts for over half of global internet traffic, with malicious bots nearing 40%. AI-driven bot attacks surged more than twelvefold in 2025, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rather than block web scrapers, Cloudflare invites them to trawl a web of useless ‘AI-generated nonsense.’ Rather than block web scrapers, Cloudflare invites them to trawl a web of useless ...

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 ...