Cloudflare observed significant Grinch Bot activity on Black Friday 2024, with 29% of traffic being from these malicious programs. The number of bot requests increased by 4x compared to 2021, and AI bots made up 1% of all bot traffic, generating 29 billion requests alone. Bots targeted customer accounts, leading to 63% of login attempts on e-commerce sites, and 14.1 billion requests from bots to /login endpoints. Residential proxy networks accounted for 22% of bot activity, making it challenging for traditional bot defense mechanisms to detect and stop attacks. To protect themselves, businesses need year-round bot protection and proactive strategies tailored to the unique challenges of holiday shopping. Cloudflare offers solutions such as Bot Management, account abuse detections, rate-limiting best practices, and automatic AI bot blocking features to help customers keep Grinch Bots at bay.