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Bot
A bot, short for 'robot,' is a program or script that automates tasks on the internet.
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