The 2026 State of AI Traffic & Cyberthreat Benchmark Report | HUMAN Security
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AI-driven traffic nearly tripled in 2025. AI agent traffic grew 7,851%. HUMAN's 2026 benchmark report analyzes more than one quadrillion interactions to map the rise of agentic AI, the threat landscape evolving alongside it, and what organizations need to know.
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Automated traffic—all non-human internet traffic—is growing eight times faster than human traffic, AI-driven traffic—traffic generated by or on behalf of AI systems—is the fastest-growing category of internet traffic, and for the first time, AI systems are not just reading the web but transacting on it.

  • Bazell@lemmy.zipEnglish
    13·
    13 hours ago

    No wonder why some sites started to lag so hard in recent months.

    • JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.netEnglish
      4·
      12 hours ago

      Yeah my favorite electronics hobby supplies website has started to take 2-10 seconds to load. Still great service and the best selection of modules in my region though. They should really throw Anubis in front of it.

      • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
        1·
        11 hours ago

        Besides Anubis, is there any other tool that might work here?

        I know about fail2ban and rate limiting configurations on Nginx level etc. But I mean, yes we have Anubis… But aside of Anubis??

        • JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.netEnglish
          1·
          3 hours ago

          CrowdSec could probably catch a moderate amount of them, but that is really geared towards bad actors and malicious probing bots.

          Fial2ban also wouldn’t work at all here since they aren’t trying brute force attacks, they are just using high bandwidth stealing as much public data from everything possible.

          I think cloudflare is also making an alternative (or has already), but it is a tough problem.