Analysis · curated 9 Sep 2026
AI Bot Threats | Steve Winterfeld, Akamai
First reported tfir.io
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Why it matters
AI-driven commoditization of attack tooling and surging AI-generated bot traffic raise the baseline sophistication of threat actors and erode the visibility security teams rely on to classify automated traffic.
An interview with Steve Winterfeld, Advisory CISO at Akamai, discusses how AI is accelerating traditional bot-based attacks such as scraping and inventory scalping, and how malicious AI tools like FraudGPT and WormGPT commoditize attack capabilities for lower-tier threat actors. Winterfeld describes a friend-frenemy-enemy bot classification model that is becoming harder to apply as AI-generated traffic blurs behavioral signals.