Akamai Research: India sees the highest AI bot activity in APAC, followed by Japan and China

Akamai Technologies released a new State of the Internet (SOTI) report that reveals an alarming spike in automated traffic driven largely by AI-powered bots targeting websites across all industries.

According to the Digital Fraud and Abuse Report 2025, AI bots now account for a rapidly expanding share of this traffic, with activity surging by 300% over the past year. These bots generate billions of requests, significantly distorting digital operations and analytics. They now compose nearly 1% of total bot traffic across Akamai’s platform.

This spike is caused by widespread content scraping, and it underscores how AI bots are actively undermining traditional web-based business models. As bot traffic grows, publishers and other content-driven businesses are seeing corrupted analytics and collapsing ad revenues through bots extracting value without giving any in return.

Beyond scraping, the report reveals that the rapid growth of AI-enabled tools has made it easier ...