Betting Against the Bots
How susceptible are gambling websites to online bot attacks? Less so than any other industry, according to the 2024 Global Bot Security Report from online fraud specialists DataDome. The report conducted bot checks on over 14,000 of the world’s highest-grossing websites, all of which receive at least 5 million visitors per month.
In all, gambling ranked as the best-protected industry against such attacks, out of 18 total. The data showed that just over 15 percent of gambling sites successfully blocked all test bot attacks, and another 40 percent blocked at least some of the attacks. Forty-four percent failed all tests, which was actually the lowest percentage of any sector.
But researchers did note that the gambling industry’s performance fell sharply from last year, when only 37 percent of domains blocked all attacks. After gambling, the media and airline industries were ranked as the second- and third-best performers. Disturbingly, the health sector had the worst protection, followed by luxury and e-commerce.
