AI Drives Surge in Bot and API Threats
Akamai says AI drove a 300% rise in bot traffic and a 113% increase in daily API attacks.
Akamai’s 22 September State of the Internet report says AI helped drive a 300% increase in bot traffic, mainly against commerce, and a 113% rise in daily API attacks between 2024 and 2025. It says 87% of surveyed organizations had an API security incident in 2025, up from 76% in 2022. Forty percent of enterprise users installed AI browser extensions, 6% of chatbot conversations contained sensitive corporate information, and 47% of AI chats on enterprise devices used personal accounts. Akamai warns that Model Context Protocol and indirect prompt injection can let adversaries manipulate agents into high-impact actions.
- Bot traffic rose 300%, mainly hitting the commerce vertical.
- Daily API attacks increased 113% from 2024 to 2025.
- 87% of surveyed organizations had an API incident in 2025.
- 6% of chatbot chats held sensitive data; 47% used personal accounts.
- Indirect prompt injection via MCP can drive unauthorized agent actions.
- Vendors
- Akamai
- Products
- Model Context Protocol
- Organizations
- Akamai
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Akamai report warns of increase in bot traffic, API threats, chatbot leaks and other AI-related threats
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