This infographic traces the evolution of internet traffic and malicious automation over a ten-year period. It shows how the balance between human traffic, good bots, and bad bots has shifted, with bad bot activity fluctuating before entering a sustained growth phase. The timeline highlights major milestones such as the rise of mobile scraping, bots-as-a-service, large-scale account takeover attacks, pandemic-driven abuse, and increasingly sophisticated evasion techniques. The key takeaway is that attackers have moved from high-volume noise to fewer, more advanced bots, driving today’s arms race and making adaptive bot protection essential.

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