In May 2026, federal prosecutors in Alaska unsealed charges against an Oregon man accused of running a DDoS-for-hire botnet called “Rapper Bot” that allegedly powered more than 370,000 attacks against ...

Rise in accessible AI tools significantly lowered the barrier to entry for cyber attackers, enabling them to create and ...

Thalestoday released the2026 Bad Bot Report: Bad Bots in the Agentic Age, revealing a fundamental shift in how the internet operates, as AI-accelerated automation becomes a defining feature of modern ...

The number of cyber attacks on the internet carried out by artificial intelligence bots has increased more than 10-fold over the last year, new research has found. Daily AI-enabled bot attacks rose ...

While humans built the internet, actual people aren’t the ones roaming the online space the most. A new report from Thales ...

Critical infrastructure cyber attacks are increasing in the U.S. — and they’re changing in nature. Here are some examples and the top trends from the first half of 2026.

Thales has released the 2025 edition of the Imperva Bad Bot Report, revealing that automated bots, many of them powered by ...

Pro-Iran hacktivism and AI bots are amplifying cyberattacks targeting online banking, payments, and applicationsCAMBRIDGE, ...

Network-layer DDoS attacks, targeting layer 3 and 4 of the OSI model, increased 168.2% year over year, with peak attack volumes reaching almost 30 Tbps, signaling a resurgence of brute-force ...

AI-driven automation is accelerating machine activity online as bots outpace humans and redefine how the internet operates Bots now dominate the internet, accounting for over half of all traffic, with ...