65.3% of 21,491 sites let all 10 automated test visitors through, as AI requests to login pages rose 8x in six months. What does that mean for ad measurement?

65.3% of 21,491 sites let all 10 automated test visitors through, as AI requests to login pages rose 8x in six months. What does that mean for ad measurement?

65.3% of 21,491 sites let all 10 automated test visitors through, as AI requests to login pages rose 8x in six months. What does that mean for ad measurement?

DDR5 scalping surge: DataDome says bots tuned request rates to evade alarms DataDome says DDR5 supply constraints tied to AI demand are creating room for

65.3% of 21,491 sites let all 10 automated test visitors through, as AI requests to login pages rose 8x in six months. What does that mean for ad measurement?

Use DataDome MCP with Claude or Cursor to monitor bot traffic, audit web security endpoints, and manage fraud prevention rules in real time.

A new report out today from bot protection company DataDome SAS finds that malicious automated traffic grew 124% between July 2025 and June 2026, more than nine times the rate of human traffic growth — and most of the popular websites it tested could not stop a single bot. The findings, from the 2026 edition of the company’s “State of Bot & Agent Security Report,” draw on more than a trillion requests across more than 75,000 customer sites, together with a June test of 21,491 popular websites. Scraping dominated the mix, at 70.9% of bad bot traffic and up 185.2% over the year. DataDome ties some of that growth to third-party data resellers and agent builders harvesting the web at scale for model training, activity that does not always identify itself as an artificial intelligence crawler. Scalping, the use of bots to buy up limited inventory for resale, rose 290.7%, with median daily volume close to quadrupling, and fake account creation was up 34.5%. Distributed denial-of-service attacks grew 39.9% and peaked above 2 billion requests in a single day in April, which made them the second-largest category at 12.7% of bad bot traffic. Credential stuffing was flat on the year...

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DataDome found malicious bot traffic rose 124% as AI agents increasingly reached login, account and payment pages.

DDR5 scalper bots are now generating roughly ten requests for every legitimate visit at one retailer. DataDome previously recorded stock checks every 6.5 seconds.

Malicious automated internet traffic is growing more than nine times faster than human traffic, while AI bots are increasingly accessing l...

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