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Akamai Research: Commerce Becomes the Epicenter for AI Bot Attacks and Agentic Fraud in 2026

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AKAM The article discusses Akamai's research on AI bot attacks and agentic fraud in e-commerce, highlighting the company's role in identifying and potentially mitigating these threats. The sentiment is neutral as it focuses on research findings rather than company performance.

Akamai Research: Commerce Becomes the Epicenter for AI Bot Attacks and Agentic Fraud in 2026 CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- An evolution toward agentic commerce and autonomous AI tools has made commerce the world’s most targeted industry by cybercriminals, according to the latest Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) State of the Internet (SOTI) security report, Securing the Agentic Storefront: Attacks on Commerce.

The report highlights that, as of December 2025, nearly half (47.9%) of all commerce traffic across Akamai’s global network now consists of AI bots. Furthermore, the industry continues to suffer a relentless barrage of application-layer (Layer 7) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) activity, malicious web application exploits, and a dangerous narrowing of the gap between traditional application attacks and API-targeted exploits.

“We are securing a digital frontier where the ‘customer’ is increasingly an AI agent operating on behalf of the human user,” said Patrick Sullivan, Chief Technology Officer of Security Strategy at Akamai. “This report reveals how and why security leaders must embrace ‘agentic readiness,’ to architect sites that welcome legitimate AI while aggressively shutting down malicious bots.”

Additional key findings include:

Regional trends

Automated bot activity and web attacks varied by region:

Mitigation strategies

To effectively counter these evolving threats, Securing the Agentic Storefront: Attacks on Commerce provides a strategic roadmap for CISOs. Recommendations include:

Now in their 12th year, Akamai SOTI Security reports continue to offer critical insights on cybersecurity trends and web performance, drawn from attacks viewed across Akamai’s cybersecurity protective infrastructure, which handles a significant portion of global web traffic.

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