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The combination of unusual direct traffic and the bounce rate is most likely because of ghost spam. Lately, GA has been hit with fake direct visits along with the common referral spam, probably as a distraction. Here is an article describing this issue and the solution to stop it...

This is Ghost Referrer Spam there is no harm or hack to your website, since these are not real visits, they never reach your website. The problem is with your statistics since this "visits" pollute them by adding useless data and affecting especially the Bounce Rate and the Avg. Session Time...

This kind of traffic is called Ghost Referrer Spam it never actually visits your site, there are many ways to stop them but all include filters in your Analytics. Try any of the solutions here ohow.co/block-referrer-spam-list/