Automated threat

An automated threat is a type of computer security threat to a computer network or web application, characterised by the malicious use of automated tools such as Internet bots. Automated threats are popular on the internet as they can complete large amounts of repetitive tasks with almost no cost to execute.

The OWASP Automated Threat Handbook provides a threat ontology list for classifying automated threats, which are enumerated below.

and interacts on their behalf

stolen payment card data

data by trying different values

account data

passwords

accounts, to achieve denial of service (DoS)

actions

versions

metric

private content, databases or user messages

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