Bots are evolving dramatically and becoming more sophisticated and launching ever more complex and targeted attacks at ever increasing rates. This makes detecting bots more important than ever but also more difficult than ever. Bots of the more recent generations are harder to identify without expert bot detection tooling. These bots could put businesses at risk of exposure to threats such as scraping, carding, and credential stuffing.

Scalper bots, or inventory hoarding bots, are used to disrupt, manipulate, and steal merchandise much faster than any human can. These malicious bots add products to carts, often products that are in high demand or limited supply. This stock is held in a basket and made unavailable to other prospective buyers. Scalper bots perform this process multiple times, causing significant problems for websites and retailers, by hijacking inventory and reselling the items at a higher price.