Help Net Security2026-09-23 04:30:37

Nearly two-thirds of tested websites fail every bot test

Malicious bot activity increased 124% between July 2025 and June 2026, compared with 13.2% growth in human traffic.

Summary

Traffic from AI agents and large language model crawlers rose 82.3% during the same period, according to DataDome’s State of Bot & Agent Security Report 2026. Bot traffic grows nine times faster than human traffic The company analyzed trillions of requests across more than 75,000 customer sites during the 12-month period. Bots and AI agents generated approximately ...

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KazaSec's take

AI-related security incidents are a genuinely new category — prompt injection, model manipulation, and data leakage through an LLM integration don't map cleanly onto traditional application security testing, and are worth assessing deliberately rather than assuming existing controls already cover them.

Coverage details

Source: Help Net Security
Published: 2026-09-23 04:30:37
Author: anamarija pogorelec
Category: technology

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