An automated threat is a type of computer security
threat
A threat is a communication of intent to inflict harm or loss on another person. Intimidation is a tactic used between conflicting parties to make the other timid or psychologically insecure for coercion or control. The act of intimidation f ...
to a computer network or
web application
A web application (or web app) is application software that is created with web technologies and runs via a web browser. Web applications emerged during the late 1990s and allowed for the server to dynamically build a response to the request, ...
, characterised by the malicious use of automated tools such as
Internet bots. Automated threats are 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.
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Types of malware
Impact of automation