June 01, 2020

Facebook to verify identities on accounts that churn out viral posts

Hopefully it's a COVID-19 version of what it did post-2016 elections, when it required verification of those buying political or issue ads.

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April 20, 2020

Bot creates millions of fake eyeballs to rip off smart-TV advertisers

The massive ICEBUCKET scheme has, so far, impersonated more than 2m people in 30+ countries, defrauding more than 300 brands of ad dollars.

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January 24, 2020

9th Methbot suspect arrested in massive clickfraud ring

How Sergey Denisoff described his early ad-buying ventures: buying BS popup traffic and reselling it to buyers demanding BS traffic.

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May 08, 2019

Malvertiser behind 100+ million bad ads indicted in the US

A Ukrainian and his gang allegedly smeared malvertising for 4.5 years and tried to rent out a botnet full of infected computers.

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April 16, 2019

US feds’ names, home and email addresses hacked and posted online

A group of hackers that doxxed thousands of federal law enforcement employees last week has struck again.

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October 03, 2018

Hacked Fortnite accounts and rent-a-botnet being pushed on Instagram

The gaming and hacking communities overlap: Some of the hacker accounts are offering botnet access as well as Fortnite accounts.

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February 13, 2018

Beware the ‘celebrities’ offering you free cryptocoins on Twitter

Who CAN you trust if you can't trust @DoonaldTrump65, promising Ethereum to all comers like he's a cryptocurrency version of Oprah Winfrey?

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September 05, 2017

Would-be cyberattackers caught by malware with a sting in the tail

It's hard to feel sorry for people who get stung by the very malware they've bought to sting others

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December 13, 2016

Nymaim using MAC addresses to uncover virtual environments and bypass antivirus

Malware connected to ransom attacks seeks to defy software protection

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