Account scraping is when someone uses software or APIs to collect user data from your website. This is illegal in many cases, but difficult to prove and fight against.
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.
Discover more about anti-bot systems. An anti-bot system is a technology put in place to stop bad bots. It detects bad bots by learning machine algorithms.
Online fraud is a widespread problem. Automated fraud attacks like phishing, card cracking, and account takeover are now pervasive, with businesses and individuals alike being subject to regular attempts to defraud them online.
An automated traffic bot is a program that generates traffic for websites by performing automated activities such as creating affiliate links and exposure in search engines.
Bot detection involves deploying various techniques and tools, including user behaviour analysis, machine learning algorithms, and device fingerprinting.
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.
A CAPTCHA bot is an automated program that attempts to bypass human verification tests used to determine whether the website visitor is an actual person.
Card cracking puts businesses and customers at risk of fines and fraud. What is card cracking, and how can you prevent it from affecting your business?
Cashing out is stealing credit card information, then cloning the card data into fake payment cards that are used to withdraw cash directly from ATMs or purchase goods in online stores.
Credential cracking, or password cracking, is the process of attempting to gain access to an online account by using credentials stolen from elsewhere.
A credential stuffing attack is a type of cyber-attack where hackers use stolen or leaked username and password pairs in an attempt to gain access to user accounts.
Form spam is the submitting unwanted content into website forms by bad actors. Spammers typically harness automated bot traffic to generate profit via phishing messages or advertising links.
It’s important to define the characteristics of good bots vs. bad bots, because bots aren’t inherently good or bad and can be used with various intents.
A one-time password (OTP) is a password that can only be used once. It is different from your regular password because it will not work if re-used, even if you input it correctly on the login page.
Sniper 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.
Token cracking is a term used in cybersecurity to describe the cracking of authentication or identification tokens, which are cryptographic keys that are generated by online services.
A watering hole attack is a targeted attack where an individual or group gains access to a particular site and infects the computers of visitors with malware.
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