Bot

A bot, short for "robot," is a program or script that automates tasks on the internet. Bots can be benign, such as search engine crawlers, or malicious, such as malware-infected bots used to perform DDoS attacks or propagate spam messages.

Types of Bots

• Good bots: Search engine crawlers, chatbots, monitoring bots
• Bad bots: Malware bots, spam bots, credential stuffing bots