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Attackers use large-scale bots to launch attacks on social media platforms
2019-08-27 04:00

Social media sites have become lucrative targets for criminals looking for quick monetization. More than half of logins (53%) on social media sites are fraudulent and 25% of all new account...

Attackers Turn Elasticsearch Databases Into DDoS Bots
2019-07-23 17:01

A recently detected attack campaign is attempting to ensnare Elasticsearch clusters into a distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet, Trend Micro reports.  The multi-stage attacks leverage...

Don't give it away, give it away, give it away now, bot busting biz tells reCAPTCHA data serfs
2019-07-18 05:34

Instead of enriching Google, try making a market for click work Analysis Internet companies depend on free labor. Companies like Amazon, Facebook and Google rely upon content creators who give...

Business security in the age of malicious bots
2019-07-01 05:45

As most technologies, bots can be used for good and bad purposes, and the information security industry is doing its best to minimize the adverse effects of the latter activities. Bots everywhere...

Researchers develop app to detect Twitter bots in any language
2019-06-18 05:00

Thanks to fruitful collaboration between language scholars and machine learning specialists, a new application that can detect Twitter bots independent of the language used was developed by...

The Fight Against Malicious Bots
2019-06-06 18:03

Cequence Security's Carl Gustas on Why These Bots Are a Growing ThreatOrganizations and their applications are under attack from automated bots and bad actors. And many of these attacks are...

Imperva to Buy Bot Detection Firm Distil Networks
2019-06-04 15:31

Cybersecurity solutions firm Imperva announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire Distil Networks, an Arlington, Virginia-based provider of bot detection and mitigation solutions for an...

Bots rigged Russian finale of ‘The Voice Kids’ talent show
2019-05-20 10:25

It turns out that robo-dialed calls accounted for 56.5% of the phone-in vote for the millionaire's daughter.

Billions of Malicious Bots Take to Cipher-Stunting to Hide
2019-05-15 14:50

Attackers have been tampering with TLS signatures at a scale never before seen using a technique called cipher-stunting.

As bad bots grow more sophisticated, so does the number of industries impacted by them
2019-04-23 05:00

Bot attack sophistication continues to evolve, as advanced attackers learn to adapt their techniques in order to invalidate existing defense tactics, according to Distil Networks. The report...