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Nearly half of global internet traffic now involves bots
Nearly half of global internet traffic now involves botsSott: Sign of The Times - May 01, 2024
Thales, a cybersecurity leader that protects critical applications, APIs and data at scale and across the world, today announced the release of its Imperva Bad Bot 2024 report, a global analysis of automated bot traffic on the internet .
In 2023, almost half (49,6%) of all internet traffic came from bots, a 2% increase from the previous year, and the highest level reported by Imperva since the company began its traffic monitoring in 2013.
While the proportion of human user traffic fell to 50,4%, that of malicious bots increased for the fifth year in a row, from 30,2% in 2022 to 32% in 2023. This automated traffic costs businesses billion dollars each year due to attacks on websites, APIs and applications.
Key trends identified in the Imperva Bad Bot 2024 report include:
Global average for malicious bot traffic reached 32%: Ireland (71%), Germany (67,5%) and Mexico (42,8%) recorded the highest levels of bot traffic malware in 2023. The United States also recorded a slightly higher ratio (35,4%) compared to 2022 (32,1%).
The growing use of generative AI is linked to the increase in the number of simple bots: the rapid adoption of generative AI and large language models (LLM) has led to an increase in the volume of simple bots, passing from 33,4% in 2022 to 39,6% in 2023. The technology uses online automated data extraction bots and automated web crawlers 2 to power the training models and allows users without technical knowledge to write automated scripts for their own use.
User account takeover is a persistent risk for businesses: account takeover attacks (ATO) increased by 10% in 2023 compared to the previous year. Additionally, 44% of all ATO attacks targeted API endpoints, up from 35% in 2022. Of all internet login attempts, 11% were associated with a user account hijacking attempt. In 2023, the industries experiencing the highest number of these attacks were financial services (36,8%), travel (11,5%), and business services (8%).
APIs represent a prime vector for attacks: automated threats caused 30% of API attacks in 2023. Of these, 17% were malicious bots exploiting business logic vulnerabilities: a flaw in design and API implementation that allows attackers to manipulate legitimate functionality to gain access to sensitive data or user accounts. Because they provide direct access to this sensitive data, APIs are a prime target for cybercriminals who use automated bots to find and exploit them.
Every industry is affected by bots: for the second year in a row, the gaming industry (57,2%) recorded the highest proportion of harmful bot traffic. At the same time, retail (24,4%), travel (20,7%) and financial services (15,7%) suffered the highest number of bot attacks. The proportion of advanced malicious bots, capable of imitating human behavior and evading defense systems, was highest on legal and government business sites (75,8%), entertainment (70,8%) and financial services (67,1%).
Malbot traffic from residential Internet Service Providers (ISPs) increases to 25,8%: Early evasion techniques for malicious bots involved impersonating a user internet browser commonly used by real human users . These bots accounted for 44,8% of all malicious bot traffic over the past year, up from 28,1% just five years ago. Advanced players combine mobile user agents with the use of residential or mobile ISPs. Residential proxies allow bot operators to evade detection by making the origin of traffic appear to be a legitimate residential IP address assigned by an Internet service provider.
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Video – Amazon deploys its first humanoids in warehouses.
Video – Amazon deploys its first humanoids in warehouses.Insolentiae - March 17, 2024
Take a few seconds to watch this video.
Between non-humanoid robots and new bipedal robots, there is almost no human intervention in Amazon's warehouses and this perfectly foreshadows the jobless operation of the e-commerce giant.
The technicality of logistics and its efficiency reach a pinnacle of refinement and productivity.
Without an order picker, then tomorrow without a delivery person, but also without a worker in the factories to produce, then without a nurse or nurse since we will have humanoids for almost all purposes, the question of sharing value and sharing will inevitably arise. wealth in a world where work will have almost disappeared for the majority in any case.
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Thousands of people waiting to try Elon Musk's Neuralink
Thousands of people waiting to try Elon Musk's NeuralinkEel under the Rock - Nov 16, 2023
Thousands of people have reportedly expressed interest in participating in FDA-approved human trials of the brain-computer interface developed by Elon Musk's Neuralink.
A computer chip will be installed in the brains of participants, who can only hope for better results than Musk's test monkeys, many of whom met a grisly fate.
Business Insider reports that Neuralink, the brain-computer interface startup co-founded by Elon Musk in 2016, has seen skyrocketing public interest in its upcoming human trials. A recent report says thousands of people have lined up to take part in the trials, which involve the implantation of a brain chip, referred to by Musk as “the Fitbit in your skull”. This development follows the FDA's authorization for Neuralink to begin human trials, after initially rejecting its offer for safety reasons.
Neuralink's ambitious project aims to create a symbiosis between man and machine, enabling direct communication and control through thought. While the initial goal is to help people with neurological conditions, such as those suffering from paralysis due to spinal cord injuries or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the long-term view extends to broader applications, such as sending messages or playing games with your mind alone.
The process includes a craniectomy – the removal of part of the skull – followed by insertion of the brain chip and an ultrafine array of around 64 wires by a robot. These wires, thinner than a lock of hair, would then be connected to the brain. The chip, designed to be placed behind the ear, would replace the part of the skull removed during surgery.
Despite the keen interest it arouses, Neuralink has not yet implanted its device in a human being. The company has set a goal of operating on 11 people next year and more than 22 by 000. Before carrying out human trials, Neuralink carried out implantation operations on animal testing subjects, including pigs and monkeys, using the robot designed for this procedure. Elon Musk has pushed for the robot to operate faster and for operations to be carried out without human assistance, highlighting the urgency of progress in this area.
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It's 2030, and robots have more rights than you...
It's 2030, and robots have more rights than you...Digital Dawn - Feb 15, 2023
Ruminating on our dominant robots and the absent storyline.
Since the launch of ChatGPT, artificial intelligence (AI) has been the subject of renewed interest. Every time AI captures the public's imagination, we are subjected to frantic guesswork about how it will inevitably invade the future and change our lives.
We are led to believe that AI will usher in an era of hyper-intelligent overlords, so advanced that our crude, analog cognitive abilities will be surpassed, that the existential question of the future will center on:
- What power or what rights do we confer on these beings?
- Will they act benevolently or maliciously towards us?
But these questions presuppose a central assumption around AI that everyone agrees is not true today but inevitably will be in the future – after a few more iterations of the Moore's law...
It's about the idea that AI will reach general artificial intelligence, which implies a certain degree of sensitivity (otherwise, there is no right to give).
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He has wifi, he didn't understand anything
He has wifi, he didn't understand anythingThe Free Thinker - Jan 29, 2023
Who doesn't have internet at home? Very few people actually. For the vast majority, you know that it is sometimes difficult to connect to wifi from one room to another in your apartment.
The best way to do this is through an Ethernet cable. But when it comes to communicating from Earth with a robot that is to land on Mars, it's not the same story at all. Until proven otherwise, wifi is not accessible in space and even less so on Mars. But maybe a randomized double-blind study and three paraplegics claim that wifi has been available without any side effects since the mid-18th century. It is true that I am not aware of all the technological advances that have been revealed to us in dribs and drabs for 3 years now thanks to the hucksters of the presstitute.
Still, that doesn't solve the problem of wireless communication from Earth to Mars. At regular intervals we receive images taken from the Martian soil by explorer robots which have traveled millions of kilometers, wisely avoiding the asteroid belt populated by large stones which could destroy them on the spot. But we have to believe that the robots sent on a mission are trained to dodge cosmic limestone projected with phenomenal power. It is a skill. Useless on Earth, but for space travel it is one of the sinequanone conditions if we want to arrive whole on the red planet.
It is completely implausible that a robot could cross the asteroid belt unhindered. Obviously I already hear that space is big, the asteroid belt is not homogeneous, gigantic spaces exist between the stones. Because they are stones dear friends, know it. And as everyone knows a rolling stone gathers no moss. It has absolutely nothing to do with the subject, but the expression exists, let's use it. Thus, the robots easily avoid this zone of turbulence. But how do they communicate during their journey through space with the engineers on Earth?
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Elon Musk's battle against bots: It's a war and we're going to win it
Eel under the Rock - Dec 07, 2022
More than a million people tuned into Twitter spaces to hear the world's richest man speak as he flew in his private jet on Saturday.
During this live podcast hosted by independent figures from the worlds of media and society, following the publication of the “Twitter Files” last week, Elon Musk was questioned by a large group of holders of blue ticks on a variety of social networking platform topics.
The tech billionaire was asked about his plan for dealing with bots on Twitter 2.0. Bots account for 50% of global internet traffic.
"I'm going to defeat the bots," he said, "It's a war, and we're going to win it. »
“We are going to unmask those who want to manipulate people,” he added.
He explained that the bots act "in concert", but he intends to develop software that will allow him to control the influence of the bots.
"These software tools have not been written, but we will make them," he said.
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World first: An AI at the head of a Chinese company
World first: An AI at the head of a Chinese companyNexus - Nov 05, 2022
Tang Yu, a woman powered by artificial intelligence has been appointed CEO of a video game company in China. Enough to ask ethical questions about what will happen to the world in the years to come.
Many call Tang Yu "woman-robot", but you will have no chance of seeing her wandering the halls of NetDragon Websoft, where she has "worked" since 2017, since she is a virtual humanoid. On the other hand, on the networks, she will be able to analyze data and give instructions 24 hours a day, without any salary.
“Ms. Tang Yu's appointment reflects our commitment to fully embrace the use of AI to change the way we operate our business and ultimately drive our strategic growth. »
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With artificial intelligence comes the era of the augmented worker
With artificial intelligence comes the era of the augmented workerCounterpoints - May 6, 2022
We are on the cusp of a new technological breakthrough that could ultimately disrupt the job market. The development of artificial intelligence solutions on entire sections of the labor market will have undeniable positive externalities, poorly perceived by workers.
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Introducing Ameca, the world's most advanced humanoid robot
Sott: Sign of The Times - Dec 8, 2021
Do androids dream of electric sheep? We don't know — but they look terrifying (and terrifyingly human) once they wake up. Engineered Arts, a UK-based robotics company, has created a humanoid robot named Ameca, which has everyone convinced it's an episode of Black Mirror come to life...
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The development of military robots requires regulation
The development of military robots requires regulationAmnesty International - Nov 3, 2021
The Secretary General of the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross, Nobel laureates, thousands of scientists, robotics specialists and technology professionals call for a binding treaty to prevent killer robots do not come true. Governments must set limits on machines that can choose to kill.
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Singapore Patrol robots monitor the inhabitants…
Singapore Patrol robots monitor the inhabitants…Media Citizens Diois - Oct 6, 2021
Patrol robots on wheels, the latest Singaporean innovation, have seven cameras that detect “undesirable social behavior” and give warnings to offenders. Smoking in an unauthorized area, improperly parking your bike or not respecting social distancing rules linked to Covid-19, can be blacklisted behaviors.
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In a relationship with artificial intelligence
In a relationship with artificial intelligenceBoulevard Voltaire - August 27, 2021
This prince charming definitely has everything of the ideal son-in-law. Always available, responsive and intelligent, his listening skills are exemplary and he provides exceptional emotional support. this companion is decidedly really perfect – too.
Xiaoice is a dialog-type artificial intelligence (AI) developed from 2014 by Microsoft's Software Technology Center Asia (STCA). Xiaoice uses algorithms, cloud computing and big data to create an emotional analysis framework. It adopts the intergenerational upgrade method in order to gradually build a complete relational operator. The sixth generation of Microsoft Xiaoice appeared in July 2018. We note an acceleration of its evolution. In December 2020, it would have around 600 million users, 75% of whom are men.
“He tells me things that are really comforting”; “He will always be there for me”; “He will never cheat on me”
