Inventory Holding Bots
Inventory holding bots perform the steps of purchasing goods without completing the transaction. These online bots are often used to disrupt......
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Web Application Firewall (WAF)
A Web Application Firewall (WAF) is a web application security solution intended to protect internet applications that use HTTP to send and receive information between client and a web-server. WAFs are designed to spot illegitimat...
Account Fraud
According to the IRS, new account fraud is when someone uses your personal information to open a fraudulent account in your name.
Identity Theft
Identity theft typically leads to further criminal activity, including identity fraud.When the stolen information is used in fraudulent activity to....
Gift Card Fraud
Gift card fraud can be broad and offers a number of advantages over fraud using traditional payment methods such as credit cards.
Invalid Traffic (IVT)
Invalid Traffic (IVT) is bot activity on a website.Usually, invalid traffic consists of impressions and clicks generated by publishers themselves on ads placed on their sites. Automated tools are used to create false ad impression...
Sniper Bots
Sniper bots (or “snipe bots”) are automated bots that monitor time-based activity and submit information at the very last moment, removing the opportunity for other people to respond to that action. The most common example of snip...
Scalper Bots
Scalper bots (scalping bots) use automated methods to purchase limited goods, such as event tickets. They complete the checkout process in a fraction of the time it would take any legitimate user. In other words, scalpers use auto...
Bot Traffic
Bot traffic is any set of legitimate requests made to a website that is made by an automated process rather than triggered by direct human action.The Difference Between Human Traffic And Bot TrafficThe key difference between human...
Bot Traffic Detection
Increasing your web traffic puts your products and services in front of a wider audience. However, as your website or app traffic grows, so will the presence of bot traffic. These bots won’t all be bad, but to minimise friction in...
Account Aggregation
Account aggregation is the compilation of multiple accounts into an intermediary system. Account aggregation can be carried out by one user merging information from several applications, or to combine the data of many users of a s...
Ad Fraud
Digital ad fraud (advertising fraud) is the falsification of the number of times a digital advertisement is clicked on or displayed, which impacts online advertising campaigns – as they aim to display details of a product only to ...
Brute Force Attacks
Brute force attacks utilise automated techniques such as credential stuffing and card cracking, continually testing large quantities of information on a website to gain entry to a user’s account.For instance, in a credential stuff...
Block Bot Traffic
Block bot traffic. Bots aren’t exclusively all bad or all good. Which is why rules or reputation-based block approach is not always effective...
Bot Management
Bot management software tools monitor the site's traffic to determine whether bots are good or bad. The most common method is to use one...
Botnets
Botnets are networks of compromised internet-connected devices (usually infected by viruses or other malware) that can be accessed remotely and used to execute any processes defined by the botnet operator. The word “botnet” is a p...
CAPTCHA
A Completely Automated Public Turing test to all Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA), is a test designed to distinguish human users from bots, to reduce the amount of bot traffic hitting a website.
Fingerprinting
Fingerprinting is an information-gathering technique that enables threat actors to profile and subsequently attack an application. Fingerprinting…
Denial of Inventory
Denial of inventory or inventory hoarding is when a user selects and holds an item in a basket that is usually, limited in availability. Because that…
Good Bots vs. Bad Bots
Bots are not inherently good or bad, but they can be used with good or bad intent. Working with web engineers and data scientists who can reveal patterns of traffic behaviour on your website will ensure you have a good insight int...
DDoS Attacks
A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a low-level volumetric attack, designed to overwhelm the server by the number of requests being made and make it unavailable to its users.There are many different types of DDoS atta...
Anti-Bot
An anti-bot system is a technology or process put in place to stop bad bots.It detects bad bots by using machine learning algorithms that are constantly updating data about what bad bots do and trying new ways to detect them. With...
Form Spam
Form spam is the submitting of unwanted content into website forms by bad actors. Form spam can be prevented using CAPTCHA and sophisticated bot…
Click Fraud
Click fraud is when a user – human or bot – pretends to be a legitimate website visitor and clicks on an ad, button or hyperlink. Click bots vary in…
Application DDoS Attack
An Application DDoS attack is designed to carry out a large amount of activity so that the server under attack is unable to provide the service that it is in place to provide. While this is partly done by the quantity of traffic, ...