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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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