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New 2025 E-commerce Bot Threat Report details rise in bot attacks, emerging threat vectors, and shifting defense strategies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Radware\u00ae, a global leader in application security and delivery solutions for multi-cloud environments, released its \u201c2025 E-commerce Bot Threat Report.\u201d The report found that automated bots\u2014good and bad bots\u2014accounted for 57% of e-commerce website traffic during the 2024 holiday season. It marks the first time that automated, non-DDoS generating bots drove more traffic than human shoppers, signaling a critical shift in the cybersecurity landscape for e-commerce providers and online retailers.
\n\u201cBad bots are no longer just based on simple scripts\u2014they\u2019re sophisticated, AI-enhanced agents capable of outsmarting traditional defenses,\u201d said Ron Meyran, vice president of cyber threat intelligence at Radware. \u201cE-commerce providers and online retailers that rely on conventional security measures will find themselves increasingly exposed, not just during the holidays but year-round.\u201d
\nThe report highlights major bot attack trends and real-world attack data observed during the 2024 online holiday shopping season. In addition, it offers insights into the distributed, multi-vector attacks e-commerce providers and retailers can expect to battle this year.<\/p>\n

Key findings and insights<\/strong>
\n\u2022 AI-generated bots with human-like behavior gain dominance<\/strong>: According to the report, bad bots made up 31% of total internet traffic during the last holiday season. Nearly 60% of the malicious traffic employed advanced behavioral techniques to evade traditional, signature-based detection. Combating these bots requires accurate AI-powered detection of attack patterns, including rotating IPs and identities, distributed attacks, CAPTCHA farm services, and other advanced anomalies, without causing false positives.
\n\u2022 Mobile-focused attacks surge:<\/strong> Malicious bot traffic directed at mobile platforms rose 160% between the 2023 and 2024 holiday shopping seasons, representing a fundamental shift in attacker focus. Security strategies need to be shored up and tailored for vulnerable mobile platforms and attackers using more sophisticated techniques, including mobile emulators, mobile-specific proxies, and headless browsers with mobile user-agent strings.
\n\u2022 Attacks leveraging distributed infrastructures and residential proxy networks increase:<\/strong> The proportion of holiday attack traffic originating from and blending in with ISP networks increased 32% between 2023 and 2024. Attackers are leveraging wider network and residential proxy services to evade rate-limiting, geo-based, and IP-based blocking mechanisms, creating even greater mitigation challenges for security teams working without advanced, multi-layered protections.
\n\u2022 Coordinated multi-vector attack campaigns escalate:<\/strong> To maximize their success, attackers are targeting applications by combining bot attacks with web application vulnerability exploits, business logic attacks, and API-focused attacks. Protecting already burdened security systems requires an integrated application security strategy that uses the latest threat intelligence and cross-correlates security threats across security modules.<\/p>\n

Radware will be addressing the new report and advanced protection strategies during the RSA 2025 Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco (booth #S-1227). The event takes place April 28\u2013May 1, 2025.<\/p>\n

Above, photo by Pavel Danilyuk on pexels<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New 2025 E-commerce Bot Threat Report details rise in bot attacks, emerging threat vectors, and shifting defense strategies Radware\u00ae, a global leader in application security and delivery solutions for multi-cloud environments, released its \u201c2025 E-commerce Bot Threat Report.\u201d The report found that automated bots\u2014good and bad bots\u2014accounted for 57% of e-commerce website traffic during the … <\/p>\n

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