A new report found that bots have surpassed human internet traffic. HUMAN Security's State of AI Traffic report found that automated traffic grew eight times faster than human traffic year-over-year.

Thales today released the 2026 Bad Bot Report: Bad Bots in the Agentic Age, revealing a fundamental shift in how the internet ...

A new report released today by Thales SA had found that bot traffic now makes up nearly half of all internet traffic globally and that bad bots account for a significant number of those bots. The ...

The number of cyber attacks on the internet carried out by artificial intelligence bots has increased more than 10-fold over ...

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

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

Almost half (49.6%) of all internet traffic in 2023 was driven by bots – a 2% increase from the previous year, marking the highest level since cybersecurity firm Imperva began monitoring in 2013. This ...

Artificial intelligence bots are running rampant on the internet as they scour for data to train language models. Much of that data includes content created by real-deal humans, and many are unhappy ...

AI-driven automation has become a foundational component of internet traffic, fundamentally reshaping how digital services ...