This week in fraud trends, we cover new threats associated with the ongoing pandemic and a range of cautions about what to expect next.

This Week in Fraud Trends, April 3, 2020, from DataVisor.

In a chaotic world filled with new and unknown threats, we can be grateful for those individuals and organizations whose mission it is to keep us informed and educated about what to watch out for, and how to protect ourselves, our businesses, and our data.

From Dark Reading this week, we received timely advice about the increasing prevalence and threat of “bad bots”:

Bad Bots Build Presence Across the Web

Bots that mimic human behavior are driving a growing percentage of website traffic while contributing to an avalanche…

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“The Big Bad Bot Problem 2020” report is based on studies by Radware researchers, who found that 31.3% of e-commerce traffic in February was from malicious bots. Their actions are becoming more dangerous because 58.1% of the Internet bots Radware found can mimic human behavior in their attacks.

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