Hackers attempted 10 billion attempts to access retail sites between May and December 2018. The online retail market is expected to hit $4.9 trillion by 2021. Hackers want access to data, such as account balances, assets and personal information. Some security tools that monitor browser-based traffic arent equipped to manage API traffic. A shift in the origin of internet traffic is causing new headaches, Akamai report says. A single bot can take that information and try to access as many as 120 sites at once.”]
Source: https://biztechmagazine.com/article/2019/05/retailers-are-under-siege-botnets