IT executives, contributors, and IT security teams in a range of industries understand that their growing arrays of public-facing applications, whether those are web, mobile, or API-based, are the targets of automated bot attack campaigns. Inexpensive and easy-to-launch automated malicious bot attacks exploit vulnerabilities in the business logic of these applications to hijack user accounts, create fake accounts, scrape content, carry out application distributed denial of service attacks, and carry out other types of attacks.
THE IMITATION GAME Detecting and Thwarting Automated Bot Attacks
