From small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China.

Since September, Western websites have been flooded by visitors from China and Singapore. Initially, web managers believed they had discovered a new audience but the traffic turned out to be bots — ...

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A new report from online advertising platform Solve Media reveals that 10 percent of all web traffic originates from automated computer bots. These bots, capable of clicking ads that trick publishers ...