Estonia-based Blackwall raises €45 million Series B to protect SMBs from malicious online traffic

A huge chunk of online traffic now comes from bots, both good and bad — but AI is boosting the latter. From DDoS attacks to scraping, there’s a renewed barrage of threats that companies have to deal with.

According to cybersecurity entrepreneur Nikita Rozenberg, the impact is more severe for SMBs. “The main difference is that large enterprises typically can survive with that. Most of these threats can simply kill small businesses.”

This inspired him to start Blackwall, an Estonia-based startup formerly known as BotGuard that shares…