Up to 40 percent of traffic on ticket sites is automated. Here’s why that’s bad for security.
If you have rushed to score exclusive concert tickets online, the chances of you competing against a human are dwindling. According to new research, nearly 40 percent of traffic to ticketing websites is made up of bots, automated programs used by brokers and cybercriminals to do everything from denying customers inventory and scalping tickets to taking over customer accounts to commit fraud. An analysis of 26.3 billion requests from 180 websites reveals that bad bots made up 39.9 percent of ticketing traffic between September and December 2018, according to the bot mitigation company Distil Networks. Seventy-eight percent of bots evaded detection by relying on human-like behavior, and most (42.2 percent) targeted the primary ticket markets, compared to 23.9 percent that hit secondary markets. Distil suggested this kind of bot traffic hurts ticket sellers by making it more difficult to purchase tickets, which results in frustrated fans and artists complaining on […]
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