Shifts in consumer activity due to the coronavirus pandemic altered the activity of automated software programs, also known as bots, in 2020. Bots accounted for 35% of traffic to healthcare sites, up from 21% in 2019. E-commerce and gambling sites saw notable increases in bots, both those labeled “good” and “bad” by Imperva. The report focuses on bad bots, which the web application security firm calls “the pandemic of the Internet” The surge in bots to e-commerce sites coincided with the release of next-generation gaming consoles.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/analytics/pandemic-pushes-bot-operators-to-redirect-efforts