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AI Bots Bypassing CAPTCHAs Increase… Cloudflare Blocks Them with 'Behavioral Analysis'
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Fusion42 · 21 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Cloudflare has launched Precursor, a behaviour-based bot defence system using continuous analysis to detect AI-driven automated bots that now account for 57% of web traffic and bypass traditional CAPTCHAs and login verification.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Cybersecurity and Security Infrastructure.
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If you're building anything that sites need to protect from bots—scraping defence, fraud detection, inventory management—your old playbook just broke. Cloudflare and competitors will now sell behaviour analysis as the new moat; your customers will demand it or build it themselves.
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