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The U.S. Department of Justice said it seized two internet domains and searched nearly 1,000 social media accounts that Russian threat actors allegedly used to covertly spread pro-Kremlin disinformation in the country and abroad on a large scale. "The social media bot farm used elements of AI to create fictitious social media profiles - often purporting to belong to individuals in the United States - which the operators then used to promote messages in support of Russian government objectives," the DoJ said.
The FBI and cybersecurity agencies in Canada and the Netherlands say they have taken down an almost 1,000-strong Twitter bot farm set up by Russian state-run RT News that used generative AI to spread disinformation to Americans and others. The international crime busters seized two web domains and 968 X accounts that were integral parts of the bot farm, the US Department of Justice said in a statement Tuesday.
Almost a thousand Twitter accounts controlled by a large bot farm pushing Russian propaganda and domains used to register the bots were taken down in a joint international law enforcement...
49.6% of all internet traffic came from bots in 2023, a 2% increase over the previous year, and the highest level Imperva has reported since it began monitoring automated traffic in 2013. For the fifth consecutive year, the proportion of web traffic associated with bad bots grew to 32% in 2023, up from 30.2% in 2022, while traffic from human users decreased to 50.4%. Automated traffic is costing organizations billions annually due to attacks on websites, APIs, and applications.
William April 5, 2024 5:21 PM. Could you imagine discovering that your identity had been used to take out fraudulent loans and when you tried to resolve the issue and didn't know the answers to the account security questions connected to the loans, but instead provided your California state ID and Social Security card you were instead arrested, charged with multiple felonies, jailed for over a year, incarcerated in a mental hospital for over a year where you were given psychotropic drugs and eventually released with a criminal record and a judge's order that you could no longer use your real name? As dystopian as this might sound, it actually happened.
Your profile can be used to present content that appears more relevant based on your possible interests, such as by adapting the order in which content is shown to you, so that it is even easier for you to find content that matches your interests. Content presented to you on this service can be based on your content personalisation profiles, which can reflect your activity on this or other services, possible interests and personal aspects.
The Top.gg Discord bot community with over 170,000 members has been impacted by a supply-chain attack aiming to infect developers with malware that steals sensitive information. One of the more recent victims of the attacker is Top.gg, a popular search-and-discovery platform for Discord servers, bots, and other social tools geared towards gaming, boosting engagement, and improving functionality.
The Top.gg Discord bot community with over 170,000 members has been impacted by a supply-chain attack aiming to deliver malware that steals sensitive information. One of the more recent victims of the attacker is Top.gg, a popular search-and-discovery platform for Discord servers, bots, and other social tools geared towards gaming, boosting engagement, and improving functionality.
The US government has recommended a series of steps that critical infrastructure operators should take to prevent distributed-denial-of-service attacks. The joint guide, entitled Understanding and Responding to Distributed Denial-Of-Service Attacks [PDF], distinguishes between denial-of-service and DDoS attacks.
You can find them by searching for OpenAI chatbot warning messages, like: "I'm sorry, I cannot provide a response as it goes against OpenAI's use case policy." I hadn't thought about this before: identifying bots by searching for distinctive bot phrases.