{"id":7298,"date":"2017-03-16T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=7298"},"modified":"2017-03-15T16:18:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T00:18:37","slug":"bad-bots-increasingly-sophisticated-in-their-attack-on-web-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/bad-bots-increasingly-sophisticated-in-their-attack-on-web-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Bots: Increasingly Sophisticated in their Attack on Web Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet site traffic is increasingly attributed to visits by bot programs. \u00a040 percent of all traffic on the internet is from\u00a0bots, and half of those visits are made by bad bots. \u00a0Bots are software programs that automate tasks on the internet or pretend to be human. Bad bots are those that do malicious things, like consuming a lot of bandwidth, scraping and stealing content, and purposely over tasking the server to slow it down or crash it.<\/p>\n<p>A report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.distilnetworks.com\/\">Distil Networks<\/a>, the 4th Annual Bad Bot Report, that was released today finds that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Proprietary content from 97 percent of web sites is being scraped by bad bots.<\/li>\n<li>Bots visiting 90 percent of web sites are able to get past the login page to access normally restricted data<\/li>\n<li>The cloud is home to many bad bots. 60 percent of bad bots originate from servers running in data centers. \u00a0Amazon AWS is a favorite for hosting bots.<\/li>\n<li>75 percent of bad bots are sophisticated enough to be able to access external resources or reside for long periods of time on a server<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Distil report found that &#8220;bad bot events are increasingly efficient, persistent, and elusive&#8230; \u00a0One of the side effects of increasing bad bot sophistication is their ability to carry out significant attacks using fewer requests, delay requests and stay under request rate limits. 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