Akamai's SOTI Security report details how agentic AI is reshaping the threat landscape for commerce, with a 19% YoY increase in AI bot traffic and over 200 billion application/API attacks between 2024 and 2025. Attackers are exploiting consumer-facing chatbots through logic manipulation, back-end AI agents via prompt injection, and public AI endpoints for token freeloading. The retail vertical bore the brunt of Layer 7 DDoS activity (84%), with hacktivist groups like 313 Team leveraging Mirai-derived IoT botnets and browser impersonation for multi-vector attacks.
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Smash and Grab at Scale: Agentic AI Is Reshaping the Threat to Commerce