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Cybercriminals set sights on bot attacks and mobile apps
2019-09-13 14:30

The past six months have seen a 13% increase in human-initiated cyberattacks. Here's what cybercriminals are targeting.

Bots evolving to better mimic humans during elections
2019-09-09 04:00

Bots or fake accounts enabled by artificial intelligence on social media have evolved and are now better able to copy human behaviors in order to avoid detection, according to USC Information...

Let's recap reCAPTCHA gotcha: Our cunning AI can defeat Google's anti-bot tech, say uni boffins
2019-09-04 18:56

Machine-learning code developed to solve image puzzles just like us netizens Video US-based academics have developed a machine-learning system to beat Google's bot-detecting reCAPTCHA system.…

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...