Botnets increasingly are creating phony online accounts on legitimate websites and online communities. Bots are showing up “en masse” to customer-facing websites posing as people. These bots can walk off with data from those sites, either for competitive purposes or for selling the stolen information on the black market. Pramana, a startup that spun off from Georgia Tech, sees anywhere from a couple of thousand to tens of thousands of new bots per hour registering on legit websites — and about 200,000 in a 15-hour period.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/botnets-target-websites-with-posers-