Online Marketplaces

Marketplaces run on trust. Automation breaks it.

Fake seller registrations, credential stuffing on buyer accounts, and bot-driven promo farming all attack the same thing: trust on both sides of the marketplace. Kairal mitigates them at the edge before listings, logins, or coupons are touched.

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The problem in marketplaces

Two-sided trust, attacked from both sides.

+441%

YoY growth in account-change attacks

Buyer accounts hold stored payment methods, saved addresses, and loyalty balances. Once attackers compromise an account, takeovers cascade quickly.

LexisNexis Cybercrime Report

40%

Of e-commerce traffic is automated

Marketplaces see disproportionate scraping pressure on listings and pricing on top of the fraud baseline.

Cloudflare, 2025

$48B

Lost globally to automated threats per year

Carding is now the #1 attack vector against e-commerce. Marketplaces aggregate exposure across thousands of sellers in a single funnel.

Thales Bad Bot Report 2025

How Kairal protects marketplaces

Both sides of the trust equation.

01

Fake account detection at registration

Every new account is scored in real time — device fingerprint, email pattern, registration velocity, behavioural signals during form fill. Bulk registrations are mitigated before they enter your seller or buyer database.

02

Credential stuffing defence on login

Login endpoints are scored for velocity anomalies, device mismatches, and the behavioural signatures of automated credential testing. Stuffing waves are mitigated silently before they land on valid accounts.

03

Promo abuse across the redemption journey

Accounts created in correlated clusters — same device, same IP range, algorithmically generated emails — are flagged before they redeem, saving acquisition budget for genuine buyers.

04

Listing scraping protection

Competitor platforms and arbitrage operators scrape listings continuously. Kairal identifies and rate-limits scraper sessions by their behavioural profile, reducing the infrastructure cost of serving bot traffic.

Coverage

Threats specific to marketplaces.

Fake accounts

Bulk-registered seller and buyer accounts used for fraud listings, promo farming, and rating manipulation at scale.

Credential stuffing

Breached credential databases hammered against buyer login endpoints to take over accounts with saved payment methods.

Price scraping

Automated crawlers harvest seller catalogue and pricing data for competitor platforms and cross-marketplace arbitrage.

Promo abuse

Bot account farms claim welcome bonuses, referral credits, and first-purchase discounts across thousands of fake identities.

Impact

What changes after Kairal.

< 25ms

Decision latency

Every registration, login, and listing-page request scored at the edge. Site performance is unaffected even at peak traffic.

Edge or origin deployment
Invisible

Zero friction for users

Silent challenges replace CAPTCHAs across registration and login. Real buyers and sellers never see a puzzle.

No CAPTCHAs, no interruption
Free

Pilot with your real traffic

Run Kairal across actual registration, login, and listing endpoints and review every mitigated session in the dashboard.

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Online Marketplaces

Marketplace trust starts at the edge.

Go live in under 2 hours. Free pilot with your real traffic — every mitigated session logged with a full signal breakdown your team can audit.

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