According to Netacea’s latest research ‘The Bot Management Review: the challenge of high awareness and limited understanding’, 95% of financial services surveyed stated that they had experienced a bot attack over the past two years. Since financial services often store highly sensitive and personal information, it is essential that the security measures that they have in place can detect even the most sophisticated of bots.
Traditionally, when selecting a bot management solution, businesses have chosen a multi-purpose security bundle bolted on to a content delivery network (CDN), typically a product such as an Akamai or CloudFlare CDN. While bolt-on bot solutions have their benefits, they lack the comprehensive feature set needed to combat the ever-growing bot threat.
Manchester, 25th March 2021 – Netacea, a bot detection and mitigation specialist, has made its services available through Salesforce Commerce Cloud. Users of the SaaS eCommerce platform will be able to quickly integrate Netacea’s technology and protect against malicious bots. Commerce Cloud is Salesforce’s platform for B2B and B2C commerce, empowering brands to create enhanced shopping experiences across all channels.
As we all prepare for a new life after Covid-19, more businesses than ever are looking at expanding their digital presence and making online their number one channel. Despite this, many are unaware and ill-prepared for the threats facing them as we all transition to a “new normal”. Thanks to the rollout of vaccines, the threat of Covid-19 is steadily diminishing and businesses are set to resume normal service.
Countless phishing attempts are made every day, and with Covid-19 causing many organisations to move to remote working, phishing attacks have massively increased over the last year. In fact, last year’s Phishing and Fraud Report found that phishing incidents rose 220% during the height of the global pandemic compared to the yearly average.
Protecting yourself when paying online is very important. It’s a scary thought, but fraudsters have lots of ways to sneak in and steal credentials, bypass security and make victims of online shoppers. As we have discussed previously on this blog, criminals don’t just rely on traditional “hacks” to exploit technology. Increasingly, bad actors are using sophisticated bots to exploit business logic in order to breach security and carry out attacks.
On 16th March Netacea sponsored the virtual Cyber Security Digital Summit where, alongside speakers from Blackberry, Thycotic and Disney, Netacea’s Head of Threat Research, Matthew Gracey-McMinn hosted a session for attendees. During the showcase, Matthew explored “Lessons Learned From An Invite Only Bot Group & Developing A MITRE-Style Framework for Bots”.
In our recent webinar Netacea’s Head of Threat Research, Matthew Gracey-McMinn and Head of eCommerce, Thomas Platt, delved into the top threats set to shape the bot landscape in 2021. 2020 saw an increasing number of bot-based attacks as everything moved online. From online shopping to working from home, the pandemic has changed the way we interact, communicate and consume. As internet activity increased, so did the opportunity to exploit users.
Content scrapers are automated bots that steal your content from websites and mobile apps for their own use without permission, usually for malicious purposes. Content scrapers typically copy all the content from a webpage and portray it as their own content. Bots can scrape all of the content on a website in a matter of seconds, even for large websites such as eCommerce sites with thousands of product pages. These bots can scrape public website information such as text, images, HTML and CSS code.
CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is designed to prevent bots or spam attacks from accessing a webpage. Traditionally users were tasked with typing text from a simple image, but over time CAPTCHA has evolved into more complex images and voice recognition in response to the increasing sophistication of attacks.
