An automated threat is a type of computer security threat to a computer network or web application, characterised by the malicious use of automated tools such as Internet bots. Automated threats are a popular on the internet as they can complete large amounts of repetitive tasks with almost no cost to execute.
Threat Ontology
The OWASP Automated Threat Handbook provides a threat ontology list for classifying automated threats, which are enumerated below.
References
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