47.9% of global e-commerce traffic came from AI bots, and commerce has passed financial services as the most targeted industry for AI-driven cybercrime. The weapon is the same technology enabling legitimate agentic shopping.
We cover the three techniques doing the damage, why 90% of retailers are watching rather than governing, the phishing volume that doubled in eight weeks, and the line that stuck with us: loyalty points are the new shadow currency — stolen without triggering a single payment fraud signal.
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Sources
- Akamai — Commerce Becomes the Epicenter for AI Bot Attacks and Agentic Fraud in 2026
- Akamai Blog — Smash and Grab at Scale
- Intelligent CISO — APAC's AI-powered commerce boom fuels surge in bot and API attacks
- CSO Online — Prompt injection breaks today's AI agents
- Bessemer — Securing AI Agents