Grinch Bots strike again: defending your holidays from cyber threats

Cloudflare’s analysis of Black Friday/Cyber Week 2024 shows surging automated abuse against e-commerce: bots comprised ~29% of network traffic (19% on retail sites), AI bots reached ~1%, 63% of login attempts were automated, and 22% of bot activity used residential proxies; the report outlines defenses including bot management scores, ATO monitoring with leaked-credential checks, rate limiting on account/purchase paths, and automatic AI bot blocking.