July 14, 2020

RATicate malware gang goes commercial

O, what tangled code we weave, when first we practise to deceive!

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June 10, 2020

‘Bot or Not?’ – a game to train us to spot chatbots faking it as humans

Can you tell whether you're talking to a human or AI?

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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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March 26, 2020

Hijacked Twitter accounts used to advertise face masks

The accounts were used to advertise a site selling products made scarce by COVID-19: face masks, forehead thermometers and toilet paper.

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March 24, 2020

Russia’s FSB wanted its own IoT botnet

If you thought the Mirai botnet was bad, what about a version under the control of Russia's military that it could point like an electronic cannon at people it didn't like?

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December 03, 2019

Ad fraud: Fake local news sites are rolling in the dough

"forbesbusinessinsider.com?" Names like that sound close enough to real news domains to pass, but bots are the only ones visiting.

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August 28, 2019

Report: 53% of social media logins are fraudulent

Most attacks are from botnets. The goals: spreading spam, stealing data, spreading propaganda, and social-engineering consumers for profit.

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March 07, 2019

Backdoored GitHub accounts spewed secret sneakerbot software

Researchers have uncovered a network of GitHub accounts containing backdoored versions of legitimate software.

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