135% Surge: Inside the Holiday Bot Attacks of December 2025
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Feed Name: Security Boulevard
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DataDome observed a 135% year-over-year surge in malicious bot activity during December 2025, driven by AI-enabled bots that mimicked human behavior and created high-fidelity synthetic identities. The report documents large-scale campaigns across industries—retail, finance, ticketing, gaming, gift cards—detailing timelines and volumes for vulnerability scanning, credential stuffing, fake account creation, scraping, scalping, and payment fraud, with multiple industry-specific peaks around key holiday dates.
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