As AI agents, bots, and programmatic access become an increasingly significant portion of web traffic, organizations need better tools to understand, analyze, and manage this activity. Today, we’re excited to announce AI Traffic Analysis dashboards for AWS WAF protection packs—also known as web access control lists (web ACLs)—providing comprehensive visibility into AI bot and agent…
Tag: bots
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Scenario: Open-source framework for automated AI app red-teaming
Enterprises running customer service bots, data analytics agents, and other AI-driven applications in production handle sensitive records and connect to core business systems every day. LangWatch has released Scenario, an open-source framework that runs automated red-team exercises against AI agents using multi-turn attack techniques that mirror how adversaries operate in the wild. Multi-turn attacks replace…
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The internet was built to keep bots out. Now it needs to let them in
GUEST OPINION: For years, the rules of the internet were simple. Humans searched. Bots were blocked. If you ran a website, your job was to rank on Google and protect your platform from automated traffic. You installed CAPTCHA, rate limits and bot detection. You kept the machines out and optimised for people.
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Wargame Exercise Demonstrates How Social Media Manipulation Works
In an educational game called “Capture the Narrative,” students created bots to sway a fictional election, simulating influence in real-world political scenarios.
AI, Global Security News
Inside a Modern Fraud Attack: From Bot Signups to Account Takeovers
Multi-stage fraud attacks chain bots, proxies, and stolen credentials from signup to takeover. IPQS shows why correlating IP, device, identity, and behavior is critical to stop it. […]
Cybersecurity, Global Security News
When Bots Outnumber Humans: The New Reality of Monitoring Web Traffic
In this post, we spoke with Todd Persen on when bots outnumber humans and the new reality of monitoring web traffic. Automated traffic now represents a substantial share of activity moving across the internet. According to the Imperva 2025 Bad Bot Report, automated programs accounted for 51 percent of all web traffic. meaning non human activity now…
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Microsoft Teams will tag third-party bots trying to join meetings
Microsoft says Teams will soon automatically tag third-party bots in lobbies, allowing organizers to control whether they can join meetings. […]
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Interview with Tom Howe of Hydrolix: AI Bots, the Friends, Foes, and Frenemies of Online Shopping
Hydrolix expert Tom Howe explains how AI bots impact ecommerce, how to spot good vs malicious bots, and why blocking them can hurt sales.
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AI Agents Are Here to Stay, Businesses Say
The AI bots are becoming widespread among large companies, even as a range of cybersecurity and tech governance issues still need to be ironed out.
AI, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Network Security, privacy, Russia
AI was not plotting humanity’s demise. Humans were
AI bots are having existential crises, inventing religions, and allegedly plotting against humanity… or so the internet would have you believe. We dig into Moltbook, the “AI-only” social network that sent Twitter into a meltdown, attracted breathless talk of the singularity, and turned out to be far less Terminator and far more humans role-playing as…
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Smashing Security podcast #454: AI was not plotting humanity’s demise. Humans were
AI bots are having existential crises, inventing religions, and allegedly plotting against humanity… or so the internet would have you believe. We dig into Moltbook, the “AI-only” social network that sent Twitter into a meltdown, attracted breathless talk of the singularity, and turned out to be far less Terminator and far more humans role-playing as…
AI, Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Security
Most Engagement Data Is Compromised and That’s a Major Security Problem
Most engagement data is compromised by bots and spoofing. Datavault AI treats engagement as a security problem, verifying real human actions at the source.