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Better Defenses Against Modern Bots

Published by: Cloudflare

Four Habits of Highly Effective Malicious Bots — and how you can overcome them

Bots have become easy and inexpensive to operate — so site owners must prepare for a variety of attacks from many different sources. Developers online offer inexpensive data scraping, even bragging about the defenses they have been able to evade. To compound the issue, many legitimate web testing automation tools like headless browsers unfortunately double as bot automation platforms.

Attackers go to great lengths to avoid detection by obfuscating their device/browser attributes, varying their bot behavior and shifting infrastructure to avoid blocklists and evade defenses.

Read this paper to learn what these practices are, and how you can counter the varied obfuscation approaches of sophisticated bots.

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Lang: ENG
Type: Whitepaper Length: 5 pages

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