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Briefing
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- Bot Traffic Dominates – Fifth annual Imperva Incapsula Bot Traffic Report found 51.8% of Internet traffic come from bots
- Significant Bad Bot Traffic – Nearly 30% of Internet traffic generated by bad bots, while 23% percent come from good ones
- Imitating Bad Bots – Most (24.3%) bad bot traffic come from impersonator bots, which pretend to be legitimate visitors of website to bypass security solutions, while scrapers (1.7%), spammers (0.3%) and hacker tools (2.6%) also identified
- Useful Good Bots – Feed fetchers, which Facebook uses to carry website content to its news feed, are most common good bots, making up 12.2% of bot traffic, followed by search engine bots (6.6%), commercial crawlers (2.9%), and monitoring bots (1.2%)
- Proliferating Attacks – 94% percent of domains surveyed experienced at least one bot attack between August 9, 2016 to November 6, 2016
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