As bots automation tools have become the norm for cyber attacks, automated threat protection has become the standard configuration of enterprise defense systems. As a professional manufacturer in the field of bots automated attack protection, Ruishu Information has continued to output bots automated threat reports for many years, so as to enable various industries to better cope with the challenges of bots automated threats.
On January 25, 2024, Ruishu Information officially released the "2023 Bots Automated Threat Report" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"). This paper conducts in-depth analysis from multiple aspects such as bots threat scenarios, development trends, and attack characteristics, analyzes bots automation attack cases in multiple scenarios, and makes the latest research and judgment on the development trend of bots automation threats in 2024, and provides corresponding protection suggestions.
Four core observations
Increased application data risk
Due to the deepening of the Internet-based process of enterprises, more and more businesses are migrated to the Internet, and a large amount of application data is generated, transmitted, disclosed, and shared. At the same time, the new generation of applications is accessed through various business channels such as WEB, H5, APP, API, WeChat, and Mini Programs, which leads to increased application exposure risks and difficulty in chain control, and various changes in credential stuffing attacks, brute force attacks, crawler attacks, and API interface abuse also lead to an aggravation of the risk of enterprise data leakage.
API attacks continue to grow
With the increase in the number of API calls and the rise of automated tools, API attacks continue to rise, and API attacks have greatly surpassed traditional web attacks, with about 70% of attacks being launched against APIs. At the same time, due to improper API asset management, most APIs are unknown, unmanaged, and unprotected, which also brings opportunities for attackers. Compared with traditional security protection, API protection still has a variety of protection difficulties, and API security requirements are becoming a hot topic.
Anti-ransomware improves cyber resilience
The frequent occurrence of ransomware attacks has made enterprises realize that "there is no absolute security", and it is impossible to avoid ransomware attacks in the true sense by relying solely on anti-ransomware. Anti-ransomware is different from anti-ransomware, and the anti-ransomware perspective is the perspective of improving "cyber resilience", even if a ransomware occurs, it is not subject to the attacker's extortion requirements, and the system and business can be quickly restored. Improve the cyber resilience of your organization, that is, provide rapid business recovery after a ransomware attack.
Generative AI threats are on the rise
Like any technological innovation, generative AI brings new security risks while improving productivity. There are already a large number of "**gpts" on the web, such as wormgpt, fraudgpt, poisongpt, evil-gpt, xxxgpt, darkbart, and many more. Through maliciously trained models, attackers can generate various tools to quickly find and exploit vulnerabilities in the target system, greatly reducing the attack threshold and improving attack efficiency.