The Dead Internet Theory is very much alive, as Thales finds bad bots taking up more and more of global internet traffic.

A Thales report found that automated activity now accounts for over half of global internet traffic, with malicious bots nearing 40%. AI-driven bot attacks surged more than twelvefold in 2025, ...

A new report found that bots have surpassed human internet traffic. HUMAN Security's State of AI Traffic report found that automated traffic grew eight times faster than human traffic year-over-year.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM) (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life online, today released a new State of the Internet ...

AI-driven automation is accelerating machine activity online as bots outpace humans and redefine how the internet operates ...

In Singapore, bots now make up 58% of all internet traffic and more than half are malicious. As AI-driven bots grow smarter ...

Almost half (49.6%) of all internet traffic in 2023 was driven by bots – a 2% increase from the previous year, marking the highest level since cybersecurity firm Imperva began monitoring in 2013. This ...

Bots account for 53 per cent of global web traffic in 2025, with AI making them harder to detect. The shift is reshaping how ...

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 ...

AI-driven automation has become a foundational component of internet traffic, fundamentally reshaping how digital services ...

Investors have been spooked by the arrival of DeepSeek's chatbot, sparking a rout in high-flying tech titans - Copyright AFP GREG BAKER Investors have been spooked by ...