Imposter
Dangerous
What it does:
Creates fake accounts on your product or service.
Objectives:
Spam overload, fraud, waste time and resource, data muddying.
Targeted sectors:
Ecommerce, telecommunications, gaming/gambling, banking, insurance, healthcare, education, government institutions.
Thief
Dangerous
What it does:
Attempts to gain access to existing user accounts.
Objectives:
Fraud, user data selling, phishing and more.
Targeted sectors:
Ecommerce, telecommunications, gaming/gambling, banking, insurance, healthcare, education, government institutions.
Scraper
High
What it does:
Scans your site and content at high speed to fetch information.
Objectives:
Competitor data mining (content and price scraping), SEO jacking, phishing, LLM training, and more.
Targeted sectors:
All.
Crasher
High
What it does:
Service/product shut down or disruption (DDoS).
Objectives:
Spam overload, fraud, waste time and resource, data muddying.
Targeted sectors:
All.
Clicker
High
What it does:
Clicks on ads to commit Ad Fraud or other action, costing the advertiser.
Objectives:
Ad fraud, wasted budget and resources, data muddying.
Targeted sectors:
All.
Blocker
Medium
What it does:
Adds items to a basket and then abandons it, preventing a real customer from purchasing.
Objectives:
Sale blocking, inventory confusion, waste time and resource.
Targeted sectors:
Ecommerce.
Scout
Medium
What it does:
Looking for sites to attack based on its own internal criteria.
Objectives:
Identify weak points, identify attack targets.
Targeted sectors:
All.
Scanner
Medium
What it does:
Scans a site for known vulnerabilities to exploit or report back to an attacker.
Objectives:
Target identification, weak point identification.
Targeted sectors:
All.
Poster
Low
What it does:
Posts fake reviews, comments, or other form data.
Objectives:
Service disruption, reputation damage, misinformation spreading/propaganda.
Targeted sectors:
All.
Pretender
Low
What it does:
Fake traffic from a social network.
Objectives:
Data muddying, wasted budget.
Targeted sectors:
All.
Hoader
Low
What it does:
Purchases low-inventory, highly sought after stock in seconds, preventing real customers from purchasing.
Objectives:
Reputation damage, inventory reduction, waste time and resources.
Targeted sectors:
Ecommerce.
.Ghost
Low
What it does:
Nuisance bot of unknown origin.
Objectives:
Unknown.
Targeted sectors:
All.