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DataDome releases 2026 Bot & Agent Security Report
On September 22, 2026: DataDome reported a 124% year-over-year increase in bad bot traffic across its customer sites, over nine times the rate of human traffic growth. Its separate test of more than 20,000 sites found 65.3% stopped none of the bot types evaluated. It is tracked as a research move because DataDome published the primary source.
Source: DataDome
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