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FIs Suffer Highest Proportion of Bad Bot Traffic: Distil Report

“Bot operators and bot defenders are playing an incessant game of cat and mouse ..."

Bad bot traffic grid Bad bot traffic grid. (Source: Shutterstock)

Financial services companies have the highest percentage of bad bots with 42.2%, according to Arlington, Va./San Francisco-based Distil Networks, in its report, “Bad Bot Report 2019: The Bot Arms Race Continues.”

The bot mitigation firm’s annual report investigated hundreds of billions of bad bot requests from 2018 over thousands of domains to provide deeper insight into the daily automated attacks wreaking havoc on websites, mobile apps and APIs. The findings, produced by the Distil Research Lab, suggested bot attack sophistication continues to evolve, as advanced hackers adapt techniques to nullify current defense tactics.

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Roy Urrico

Roy Urrico

Roy W. Urrico specializes in articles about financial technology and services for Credit Union Times, as well as ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies. Also: writer/editor of a semi-annual newsletter for Association for Financial Technology since 1997 and history projects funded by the U.S Interior Department, National Park Service and Warren County (N.Y.).

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