bot farm
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Hunter becomes the prey: how Opticks handled a mass-registration bot attack
Over the past few weeks our own platform was targeted by a mass-registration bot wave. The attack was simple in shape but loud in consequences, and dealing with it gave us a useful opportunity to put our own product through a real-world stress test. A sign-up issue appears The pattern was straightforward: bots hammering our…
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What Are Click Bots and How Can You Prevent Them?
Invalid traffic is a huge problem for marketers. Click fraud is a significant driver of this type of traffic, and it occurs when invalid or illegitimate clicks are made by malicious software, bots, or competitors. Click fraud is carried out using various techniques such as clickjacking, click spamming, click injections, and click bots.