Q2 2025 Fastly Threat Insights Report

The Fastly Threat Insights Report highlights security trends, attack vectors, and threat activity across the application security landscape. Drawing from trillions of requests across our global customer base, this report offers a realtime view into what’s materially impacting security teams in the context of larger trends.

In this edition, we exclusively focus on AI bots, a rapidly growing category of automated traffic that is reshaping how content is accessed, scraped, and potentially monetized across the web. As organizations navigate the growing impact of AI-driven automation, understanding the behavior, scale and risks of these bots is essential to maintaining visibility, controlling content access, and preserving competitive advantage.

This quarter’s insights are derived from traffic analyzed across Fastly’s Next- Gen WAF (NGWAF) and Bot Management products between April 16 and July 15, 2025. These solutions collectively protect over 130,000 applications and APIs* and inspect more than 6.5 trillion requests per month**. Fastly’s broad visibility spanning edge and cloud-native architectures, combined with our presence across a wide range of industries, including leading e-commerce, streaming, media and entertainment, financial services, and technology organizations, provides us with a unique and comprehensive view of the global web application threat landscape.