Artificial Intelligence Fuels Rise of Hard-to-Detect Bots That Now Make up More Than Half of Global Internet Traffic

• 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