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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Cloudflare data shows AI bots scrape heavily and send little traffic back, raising questions about ethics and the web's future.

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 ...

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 ...