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State of Bot & Agent Security Report 2026

DataDome's annual report on automated web traffic, combining the company's customer request telemetry with its own outside-in detection tests of popular websites.

Known aliases

State of Bot & Agent Security Report

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

security1 publisher

Ten simulated bots walked past 65.3% of the popular sites DataDome tested

DataDome measured malicious bot activity up 124% in the year to June 2026 against 13.2% growth for humans, and its own detection test found most popular sites challenged none of ten simulated bots.

Publishers:helpnetsecurity.com

Reality

Evidence44
Adoption56
Hype gap+28
Incentives82
Confidence48