Bots and Cybersecurity

**Executive summary:** This report outlines the rising problem of malicious bots—automated programs used for account takeover, data scraping, disinformation, DDoS, and creating botnets—illustrating impacts with examples like Russian-linked election bots and the Ticketmaster ticketing disruption; it then recommends defenses such as strong endpoint security, blocking known bot hosts and proxies, monitoring for anomalous traffic and failed logins, and leveraging managed detection and response (Arctic Wolf MDR) to detect and mitigate bot activity.