- Rise in accessible AI tools significantly lowered the barrier to entry for cyber attackers, enabling them to create and deploy malicious bots at scale
- For the first time in a decade, automated traffic surpassed human activity, accounting for 51% of all web traffic
- API-directed attacks surged to 44% of advanced bot traffic, with the travel sector topping the list for bot attacks overall
The internet has turned into a wasteland of slop in no time flat. If you use any of the major search engines to try to find information on something, you can only count on a small handful of sites in the results giving you actual human articles and discourse. Even engines that used to position themselves as being the more organic and friendly choice (I’m looking at you DDG, you’re fucking worthless now.)