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Bad Bots Now Make Up 20 Percent of Web Traffic (zdnet.com)
So-called "bad bots," tasked with performing denial-of-service (DoS) attacks or other malicious activities like automatically publishing fake content or reviews, are estimated to make up roughly 37.9 percent of all internet traffic. "In 2018, one in five website requests -- 20.4 percent -- of traffic was generated by bad bots alone," reports ZDNet, citing Distil Networks' latest bot report, "Bad Bot Report 2019: The Bot Arms Race Continues." From the report: According to Distil Networks' latest bot report, the financial sector is the main target for such activity, followed by ticketing, the education sector, government websites, and gambling. Based on the analysis of hundreds of billions of bad bot requests over 2018, simple bots, which are easy to detect and defend against, accounted for 26.4 percent of bad bot traffic. Meanwhile, 52.5 percent came from those considered to be "moderately" sophisticated, equipped with the capability to use headless browser software as well as JavaScript to conduct illicit activities.
A total of 73.6 percent of bad bots are classified as Advanced Persistent Bots (APBs), which are able to cycle through random IP addresses, switch their digital identities, and mimic human behavior. Amazon is the leading ISP for bad bot traffic origins. In total, 18 percent of bad bot traffic came from the firm's services, a jump from 10.62 percent in 2017. Almost 50 percent of bad bots use Google Chrome as their user agent and 73.6 percent of bad bot traffic was recorded as originating from data centers, down from 82.7 percent in 2017. The United States outstrips all other countries as a generator of bad bots. In total, 53.4 percent of bad bot traffic came from the US, followed by the Netherlands and China. The most blocked country by IP is Russia, together with Ukraine and India.
A total of 73.6 percent of bad bots are classified as Advanced Persistent Bots (APBs), which are able to cycle through random IP addresses, switch their digital identities, and mimic human behavior. Amazon is the leading ISP for bad bot traffic origins. In total, 18 percent of bad bot traffic came from the firm's services, a jump from 10.62 percent in 2017. Almost 50 percent of bad bots use Google Chrome as their user agent and 73.6 percent of bad bot traffic was recorded as originating from data centers, down from 82.7 percent in 2017. The United States outstrips all other countries as a generator of bad bots. In total, 53.4 percent of bad bot traffic came from the US, followed by the Netherlands and China. The most blocked country by IP is Russia, together with Ukraine and India.
from the article "Bots, in general , are estimated to make up roughly 37.9 percent of all Internet traffic. In 2018, one in five website requests -- 20.4 percent -- of traffic was generated by bad bots alone."
Summary says it is "bad bots" that make up roughly 37.9 percent. Jesus fuck read the article and quote it correctly.
I run a technology and maker site that gets a good amount of traffic. My experience is almost all nefarious spam bot traffic comes from India. To the point I have blocked all India IP addresses from even using forms on my site.
Mike @ The Geek Pub. Let's Make Stuff!
And send them back in time to terminate the bad bots. "Come with me...if you want to stop click fraud"
Bad Bots
Bad Bots
Watcha gonna do
when they connect to you?
you don't eat crackers in the bed of your future--or else you'll get all scratchy
We should build a system that lets people be in instant contact with all aspects of their life, including news, commerce, entertainment, politics, health, everything! Everyone will see the social benefits, and no one will let money corrupt the system! It will be awesome!
Even tho the summary mentions America is the worst.
Trump was right for the wrong reasons!
J. J. Abrams is the reason for 20.4 percent of internet traffic.
Bad Robot is an American film and television production company led by J. J. Abrams.
The classification of a bot as bad could be debated
If the bots could talk, I'm sure they'd paraphrase Jessica Rabiit and say "I'm not bad, I was just coded that way".
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Agreed.
However , APK is not a bot.
APK is an editor ( or a past editor with administrative rights) on this site.
Let's try a little experiment to strengthen my theory- just comment links to warez sites here and see how fast the editors delete your comments.
Why aren't they able or willing to delete APKs comments linking to APKs warez?
There is censorship happening on slashdot and it's very one sided.
Imhe APK is and editor or former editor and still retains administrative privileges and that's it.
Live with APK or troll against APK ,
Slashdot doesn't care because more clicks==more engagement==more$$
Kendall I have to agree with your fan club.
If you had a brain, you would be too stupid to know what to do with it.
Die in a fire kendoll
Facebook and other antisocial media sites ?
To keep all the detected bots in real time out of a 1000/1000 domestic network?
With a fast CPU and lots of memory.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Bill Clinton was disbarred from practicing law in Arkansas over his lying. Why do Republicans get a pass? It's because Trump was right, the system is rigged. But not rigged to benefit spineless, incompetent Democrats. Wake up Trumptards! You won, and destroyed democracy.
When considering that at the very least 80 percent or more of all web traffic is caused by neutral and/or good bots then one has to wonder who the one person is that the whole internet is revolving around.
https://github.com/tg12/UnreputableDomainsList
This.
This problem was solved decades ago, but we choose to neglect the mechanism, and we did not bother to modernize it.
That mechanism is the abuse report to the up-link of the IP address, who then takes action, preventing further abuse, or risks to be reported to his own up-link.