The AI Bot Epidemic: The Imperva 2025 Bad Bot Report
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
The ubiquity of accessible AI tools has lowered the barrier to entry for threat actors, helping them create and deploy malicious bots at an unprecedented scale.
Moreover, generative AI (GenAI) simplifies bot development, which is seeing automated threats evolve swiftly. GenAI is helping them grow in sophistication and volume while honing their obfuscation techniques to help them fly under the security radar.
AI is also being used to amplify and simplify attacks and unpack failed attempts helping attackers refine their techniques to evade detection tools with greater precision. These cunning, complex bots put entities in every sector at significant risk.