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A new report from Arkose Labs documented a 90% surge in fraud attacks over just six months at the end of 2019, driven by criminal operations using low-cost human farms to conduct attacks at scale. The Q1 2020 Fraud and Abuse Report, based on more than 1.3 billion individual transactions from October through December 2019, found sweatshop-powered fraud had become a dominant and rapidly growing attack vector. The findings revealed that human farm operators offered a cost-effective alternative to fully automated attacks, particularly as bot-detection technology improved.
