This infographic explains why APIs have become prime targets for bad bots as they power automation, real-time decisions, and integrations across digital ecosystems. It highlights that advanced bot traffic disproportionately targets APIs, with attackers exploiting business logic, weak authentication, misconfigurations, and third-party integrations to scrape data, commit fraud, and bypass controls. Financial services, business services, telecoms, and healthcare are among the most targeted industries. Common attack types include data scraping, account takeover, payment fraud, and scalping. The infographic emphasizes that attackers focus on high-value API endpoints such as authentication, checkout, and data access, underscoring the need for dedicated API discovery, monitoring, and bot mitigati

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