Mysterious wave of bot traffic sweeps the web

Mysterious wave of bot traffic sweeps the web

A mysterious wave of bot traffic is coursing through the World Wide Web. In recent weeks, websites large and small have seen dramatic spikes in visitors with IP addresses in Lanzhou, China — a manufacturing-heavy city that’s not known as a tech hub — with some of the visits routed through Singapore. The two cities accounted for one-fifth of the traffic to US government websites in the last three months. Experts are puzzled about why the bots see…

Chinese Bots Targeting Websites of Government Portals, Paranormal Activity Blogs - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News

Since last year, website administrators across Western countries have been dealing with a strange and sustained spike in traffic traced to China and Singapore. What initially appeared to be a promising expansion of international audiences quickly turned into a technical puzzle involving automated traffic, widely described as Chinese bots, with no clear explanation.  The unusual activity first drew attention when site owners noticed dramatic incr…

Chinese Bots Flood Websites Via Lanzhou Traffic Surge

Since last year, website administrators across Western countries have been dealing with a strange and sustained spike in traffic traced to China and Singapore. What initially appeared to be a promising expansion of international audiences quickly turned into a technical puzzle involving automated traffic, widely described as Chinese bots, with no clear explanation.  The unusual activity first drew attention when site owners noticed dramatic incr…