"Rise in Automated Attacks Troubles E-commerce Industry"

According to Imperva, the leading threat to online retailers is automated attacks conducted through sophisticated bad bots against application business logic. Other significant threats to online retailers include account takeover, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS), Application Programming Interface (API) abuse, and client-side attacks. Online retailers are built on an extensive network of API connections and third-party dependencies, making them vulnerable to a range of attacks. This article continues to discuss the security threats faced by the e-commerce industry, the surge in security incidents during the holiday shopping season, and dangerous bots making up over 50 percent of automated traffic.

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