Holiday sales in the time of COVID—what to expect from bad bots

Online Masterclass

Holiday sales in the time of COVID—what to expect from bad bots.

Watch this masterclass to get the lowdown on the 2020 breed of Black Friday bad bot attacks, and a heads up on what to look out for during the holiday sales!

Speakers

Antoine Vastel

PhD, Head of Research at DataDome

Antoine Vastel oversees the SOC and threat research teams at DataDome. He focuses on improving DataDome’s real-time bot detection engine through different approaches, including behavioral detection, HTTP/browser fingerprinting, (residential) proxies/infected IP detection, and CAPTCHA farm detection. Antoine holds a PhD in computer science with a focus on browser fingerprinting.

About this webinar

Right now, cybercriminals are getting ready to wreak havoc on e-commerce end-of-year sales. But what exactly will bad bot operators be up to this less-than-ordinary year?

The answer is: we can’t yet know for sure. What we do know is that there will be bot attacks galore, and that what we observe around Black Friday is a good indication of what to expect for the holiday season.

In 2019, for example, we saw the following patterns around both events:

– Intensive web scraping activity throughout the shopping season.
– Major DDoS attacks right before the most important shopping days.
– Peaks of account takeover attempts on days when vigilance may be at its lowest.
– Massive volumes of both good and bad bot traffic that would slow down any website if left unchecked.