"Businesses Are Leaving Bot Attacks Unchallenged for Almost Four Months"

Netacea has published new research on how businesses are dealing with bot attacks, revealing one critical area where companies are failing to combat such attacks. According to Netacea's report, bots have been going undetected for an average of 16 weeks, an increase of two weeks from last year's findings. The study polled 440 organizations in the travel, entertainment, eCommerce, financial services, and telecommunications sectors in the US and the UK. It is a follow-up to last year's research, and it reveals that businesses appear to be doing worse than last year in the battle against bots in almost every measure. In addition to finding that bot attacks are going undiscovered for a longer time, Netacea discovered a shift among bot owners, with 60 percent of businesses detecting attacks on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and 39 percent detecting attacks on mobile apps (up from 46 percent and 23 percent from 2021 respectively). Each of the four major forms of bot attacks—sniper, account checker, scalper, and scraper—has increased by 7 to 9 percent since 2021. Account checker bot attacks are currently detected by 53 percent of companies. Nearly 97 percent of all businesses reported that bot attacks have impacted consumer satisfaction. This article continues to discuss key findings from Netacea's research into how businesses are handling bot attacks.

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