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AI Bot Traffic Surges 300% in One Year, Akamai Reports
AI-powered bots now generate 51% of web traffic, with a 300% annual surge causing increased fraud, content scraping, and API exploitation across multiple industries, Akamai reports.
- Akamai's State of the Internet report found AI-powered bots surged 300% over the past year, surpassing human traffic to account for 51% of web activity in 2024 and blocking 13 trillion bad bot requests.
- AI and LLMs have lowered barriers for cyber attackers, enabling simpler bots and spawning a new category of aggressive AI crawlers in recent years.
- More than 25 billion bot requests hit the commerce industry over two months, healthcare triggers are over 90% scraping, and API-directed attacks form 44% of advanced bot traffic targeting APIs and API business logic.
- Amid rising bot traffic, publishers and content-driven businesses face corrupted analytics and collapsing ad revenues, and Akamai announced September 2025 partnerships with TollBit, Skyfire, and Seraphic Security to monetize and secure content.
- To respond, the report recommends building defenses aligned with the three OWASP Top 10 frameworks as Rupesh Chokshi, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Application Security, at Akamai, said, `The rise of AI bots has moved from the security team's concern to the boardroom's business imperative`.
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