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 — ...

Internet insecurity has reached a new milestone: More web traffic (51%) now comes from bots, small pieces of software that run automated tasks, rather than humans, according to a new report.