Thales Says Bots Drove 58% of Singapore Traffic in 2025 as AI Attacks Jumped 12.5-Fold
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Updated · AsiaTechDaily · Jun 19
Thales Says Bots Drove 58% of Singapore Traffic in 2025 as AI Attacks Jumped 12.5-Fold
3 articles · Updated · AsiaTechDaily · Jun 19
Summary
58% of Singapore internet traffic in 2025 came from bots, versus 42% from humans, and more than half of that automated traffic was malicious, Thales said in its 2026 Bad Bot Report.
12.5-fold growth in AI-driven bot attacks helped blur the line between legitimate automation and abuse, with Thales arguing companies now need to judge machine traffic by intent rather than simply labeling it human or bot.
27% of bot attacks targeted APIs, reflecting attackers’ shift toward backend systems; in Singapore, financial services drew 79% of recorded bot attacks, while computing and IT saw 45% of account-takeover incidents.
40% of global web traffic was bad bots in 2025, and Thales said the surge is also raising cloud, compute and analytics costs for businesses while complicating visibility in AI search and crawler ecosystems.
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Bots Overtake Humans Online: The 2026 Shift to AI-Driven Web Traffic and Its Economic Fallout
Overview
As of June 2026, bots have overtaken humans as the main drivers of web traffic, marking a major turning point for the internet. This shift is fueled by the rapid rise of agentic AI bots, which operate at speeds far beyond human capability and now shape much of the content people see online. The dominance of these advanced AI agents is not only changing how information is accessed and consumed but also raising concerns about the integrity of online content, as more than 10% of AI-generated summaries now reference other AI-created material. This new reality is fundamentally reshaping the digital landscape.