LexisNexis Cybercrime Report: Agentic Bot Traffic Up 450%, Malicious Bot Attacks Up 59%, Driving 8% Global Fraud Rise

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Analysis of 116 billion online transactions in 2025 reveals agentic bot traffic surged 450% in a single year, mainly targeting credit card payments and gaming logins. Malicious bots can now mimic human cursor movements well enough to fool behavioral fraud detection. Synthetic identity fraud comprises 48.3% of all fraud in LATAM. The report identifies a new third category of digital interaction — agentic bots that aren't inherently malicious but create novel fraud detection challenges at scale.