2026 AI and Cyberthreat Trends in Retail & E-Commerce

AI Is Changing How People Shop. Can You Tell Which Agents to Trust?

AI agents are moving beyond product discovery and into the transaction itself. The opportunity is huge, but the same automated traffic is being used for scraping, account takeover, and payment fraud.

This report shows how quickly agentic commerce is growing, where it is colliding with cyberthreats, and what retailers need to know to capture the opportunity.

You'll learn:

  • How fast agentic commerce is growing and where it’s happening
  • How AI traffic is intersecting with scraping, account takeover, and payment fraud
  • What it takes to distinguish high-value AI agents from malicious automation
Key Statistic

Agentic traffic to retail surged 7,851% year over year.

Retail now captures 46.6% of all agentic traffic, putting e-commerce at the center of the shift from AI-assisted shopping to AI-driven transactions.

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