Bots stories
A new study suggests AI-generated respondents could help researchers spot trends faster, despite major differences between conventional online panels.
Generative AI is helping Tehran speed up phishing, malware and influence campaigns, while making attacks harder to attribute.
Businesses may need to rethink bot blocks, as Decodo says automated systems now make up 57.4% of web requests and shape product discovery.
Security teams can now tighten oversight of service accounts, API keys and AI agents as machine identities outnumber staff in many enterprises.
World Cup betting traffic has become a target for denial-of-service campaigns, with one European operator hit by 19 million malicious requests.
Major sporting events are giving fraudsters fresh ways to scrape data, hijack tokens and abuse APIs in genuine betting apps.
Origin systems are facing heavier strain as Fastly says AI requests rose 30% between January and May 2026, outpacing human traffic.
Sustained assaults are disrupting online banking and payments as EMEA becomes the main target for DDoS campaigns against lenders.
More than nine in ten security incidents now involve anonymising services, leaving many organisations unable to spot malicious traffic in real time.
AI scraping could distort live betting markets during the World Cup, raising fraud risks for bookmakers and ordinary punters alike.
Australian organisations are racing ahead with AI agents, but most still lack the identity controls needed to secure non-human users at scale.
Only about 10% of APAC organisations say their identity systems can fully secure AI agents, bots and service accounts.
Music streamers and rights holders can now flag bot-driven listening that distorts royalties and chart data under Tuned Global's new controls.
Shorter attack windows are pushing cloud teams towards automated defence, as Sysdig says AI-driven threats now outpace manual response.
AI agents and service accounts are exposing Australian and New Zealand firms to regulatory, financial and reputational risk as controls lag.
The new system aims to stop automated agents from edging out genuine shoppers during peak ticketing and retail sales, amid UK regulatory scrutiny.
The award lifts Areto’s profile as it expands software that has blocked more than 229,000 fraud attempts and illegal streams in a year.
Partners in the UK channel face rising pressure to prove value as customers switch providers and demand faster innovation, longer-term roadmaps.
By limiting posts to verified users, the new service aims to curb bots and impersonation in online political debate.
Netacea has unveiled Trust Layer, a server-side tool to classify and control surging AI agent and bot traffic before it hits apps.
