Examples of such bots include MyGoBot and PokemonGo-Bot. The first type of bot automates regular gameplay and is a common offender on other gaming apps, automating activities such as walking around and catching Pokémon. No wonder Pokémon Go servers were heavily overloaded in recent weeks. The automated traffic appears to have been about twice that of the traffic from real human players. The chart included in the post depicts a significant spatial query traffic drop since Niantic rolled out countermeasures for the automation at 1pm PT 08/03. Niantic recently published a blog post detailing the problems bots were creating through the generation of automated traffic, which actually hindered their Latin America launch. At Shape we deal with these types of attacks every day, so we thought we would take a closer look at what happened with the Pokémon Go API attacks. Pokémon Go is a perfect case study in how automated attacks and defenses work on mobile APIs. These bots have started interfering with everyone’s fun by overwhelming Pokémon Go servers with automated traffic. Game-playing bots are not a new phenomenon, but Pokémon Go offers some new use cases for bots.
It turns out that many of those users are not people at all, but automated agents, or bots. Tens of millions of people are out exploring the new world of Pokémon Go.
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