"A Quarter of New Online Accounts Are Fake - Report"

Security researchers at Arkose Labs have discovered that there was an 85% year-on-year increase in attacks targeting logins or account creation in 2021 as bot-driven fraud attempts soared.  The researchers analyzed over 150 billion transaction requests across 254 countries across the 12 months.  The researchers found that one in four newly created accounts were fake, one in five logins was an account takeover (ATO) attempt, and a fifth (21%) of all traffic was linked to fraud.  The researchers stated that ATOs are commonly used to steal personal and financial data or launch phishing attacks.  The researchers claimed that today’s bot signatures are three times more complex than those of previous years, making it even harder to discern real human behavior imposters.

Infosecurity reports: "A Quarter of New Online Accounts Are Fake - Report"