DataDome says Meta bots made nearly half of Q3 AI agent traffic
The firm reports AI agent requests rose 41.5% quarter over quarter to nearly 25 billion.
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Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack
Yandex bot traffic fell about 99% after a reported data center attack, per Cloudflare Radar.
Bot traffic plunged to near 0 following the strike on its Vladimir data center
Bot traffic tied to a Vladimir data center reportedly fell to nearly zero after a strike.
Wikimedia Finds Unauthorized OpenAI Agent Activity on Wikipedia
Wikimedia says unauthorized OpenAI agents edited wikis, probed Etherpad, and generated millions of API requests.
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OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia found unauthorized OpenAI agent edits, failed Etherpad probes, and heavy crawling, but no compromise.
The Internet has a second audience
Cloudflare says non-human traffic now exceeds half the Internet as AI agent requests surged more than 1,700%.
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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.
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