What Happened To Bot-It Online Automation From Shark Tank Season 15?

New research from cybersecurity companyRadware shows that bots, not humans, now account for themajority of online shopping traffic. The proportion of holiday attack traffic originating from and blending in with ISP networks increased 32% between 2023 and 2024. Attackers are leveraging wider network and residential proxy services to evade rate-limiting, geo-based, and IP-based blocking mechanisms, creating even greater mitigation challenges for security teams working without advanced, multi-layered protections. Besides concert tickets, Bachelor offered up dinner reservations and golf course tee times as bot targets that Bot-It can be used to compete with. Though Bot-It had a slate of pre-built bots available to customers, the company also sells the ability to order a custom-made, purpose-built bot. “Today’sbots are powered by artificial intelligence and are muchharder to detect,” said Ron Meyran, Radware’s VicePresident of Cyber Threat Intelligence.

• New research from cybersecurity companyRadware shows that bots, not humans, now account for themajority of online shopping traffic.
• According toRadware’s 2025 E-commerce Bot Threat Report,automated bots made up 57% of all visits to e-commercewebsites during the 2024 holiday season.
• Whaitua is an online mapping tool that visualises critical information about whānau households and their communities across the social and economic determinants of health.
• So what happened to Bot-It after its big “Shark Tank” appearance?
• The report highlights major bot attack trends and real-world attack data observed during the 2024 online holiday shopping season.
• However, the information is provided without any express, statutory, or implied warranties and is subject to change without notice.

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“Retailers who relyon outdated security measures could be leaving themselveswide open to attacks, not just at Christmas, but all yearround.” The report suggests that retailers willneed to adopt smarter, AI-powered security tools that candistinguish between real customers and sophisticated bots— or risk falling victim to fraud, lost revenue, andreputational damage. Radware will be addressing the new report and advanced protection strategies during the RSA 2025 Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco (booth #S-1227). Radware will be addressing its new report and advanced protection strategies at the ITWeb Security Summit 2025 as a Gold sponsor. The event will take place at CTICC, Cape Town on 28 May 2025, and at Sandton Convention Centre in Sandton, Johannesburg, on 3-4 June 2025. With the 2025 holiday shoppingseason on the horizon, the pressure is on for e-commerceproviders to rethink their defences before the nextbot-driven buying frenzyhits.

Radware Finds 57% of Online Shopping Traffic Now Bots, Not Buyers

The report highlights major bot attack trends and real-world attack data observed during the 2024 online holiday shopping season. In addition, it offers insights into the distributed, multi- vector attacks e-commerce providers and retailers can expect to battle this year. In addition, it offers insights into the distributed, multi-vector attacks e-commerce providers and retailers can expect to battle this year. The report highlights major bot attack trends and real-world attack data observed during the 2024 online holiday shopping season. While not allbots are bad (some, like search engine crawlers, areharmless), the report warns that many are designed to carryout malicious activities. These include scraping prices,hoarding inventory, committing fraud, and launching attacksagainst online retailers.

Radware finds 57% of online shopping traffic now bots, not buyers

Two weeks after the episode premiered, Bachelor was interviewed by WEWS-TV, his hometown ABC affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio. “Shark Tank” has seen plenty of tech-savvy pitches over the years, such as the Fixed App from Season 7 and the CoinOut App from Season 9. Both Mark Cuban and guest shark Michael Rubin of Fanatic showed interest, with Rubin, in particular, wanting to have the potential disruptor as part of his portfolio instead of on the outside.

According toRadware’s 2025 E-commerce Bot Threat Report,automated bots made up 57% of all visits to e-commercewebsites during the 2024 holiday season. It’s the firsttime bots — computer programs that mimic human behaviouronline — have outpaced real shoppers. Theface of online shopping is changing — and not necessarilyfor the better.

• The report suggests that retailers willneed to adopt smarter, AI-powered security tools that candistinguish between real customers and sophisticated bots— or risk falling victim to fraud, lost revenue, andreputational damage.
• The event will take place at CTICC, Cape Town on 28 May 2025, and at Sandton Convention Centre in Sandton, Johannesburg, on 3-4 June 2025.
• Radware will be addressing its new report and advanced protection strategies at the ITWeb Security Summit 2025 as a Gold sponsor.
• In Cape Town (booth 17), Radware will be exhibiting with its distributor Boston IT Solutions South Africa, a unit of Boston Limited Group and leading provider of custom IT systems and services across sub-Saharan Africa.
• Attackers are leveraging wider network and residential proxy services to evade rate-limiting, geo-based, and IP-based blocking mechanisms, creating even greater mitigation challenges for security teams working without advanced, multi-layered protections.

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Whaitua is an online mapping tool that visualises critical information about whānau households and their communities across the social and economic determinants of health. OpenAI said the goal of its update was to make it “faster to find, compare, and buy products”. It said the feature would be available to all users but it would take a few days for the rollout to be complete. Adding shopping to its search puts OpenAI into even more direct competition with Google, as well other websites that offer product reviews, such as the New York Times and other publishers. Google is still by far the dominant player in search, capturing roughly 89% of global traffic, according to analyst estimates. But its share of the market has been slowly slipping in recent months.

It said the update would allow users to see prices and reviews more easily, as well as find direct links to purchase personalised product recommendations. As for the future, Maurice Bachelor commented on what’s next in a January 2024 interview with Eqvis, where he revealed that Bot-It completed a funding round recently. “We plan on utilizing the funding in many different ways,” he said. He just wants to continue to try to even the playing field for the averaging person who competes with large-scale botnets. Pātea, meaning to be free or lifted of burden, is an indigenously designed, built, and operated digital platform, the first of its kind globally.