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.
[1] Automated threats are popular on the internet as they can complete large amounts of repetitive tasks with almost no cost to execute.
[2] The OWASP Automated Threat Handbook provides a threat ontology list for classifying automated threats, which are enumerated below.
and interacts on their behalf stolen payment card data data by trying different values account data passwords accounts, to achieve denial of service (DoS) actions versions metric private content, databases or user messages