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The easiest way to dissuade adversaries from implementing solver services on your site is to make it difficult and time-consuming to bypass the security system.

New research from Kasada shows a 50 percent jump in bad bot activity during Black Friday week, with bot operators using customized open-source development tools, headless browsers, and new Solver Services to conduct their attacks at scale.

Cybercriminals are leveraging illegal bots to to steal pharmacy accounts and resell prescriptions on a secondary market for opiates.

Researchers at anti-bot specialist Kasada have recently uncovered the use of Solver Service bots -- an API-as-a-service tool created to bypass the majority of bot management systems.

The API-as-a-Service tool made up less than 10% of e-commerce bot traffic a year ago and now accounts for 95% of e-commerce bot traffic, Kasada reported Friday.