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Cybercriminals Using Telekopye Telegram Bot to Craft Phishing Scams on a Grand Scale
2023-11-24 15:32

More details have emerged about a malicious Telegram bot called Telekopye that's used by threat actors to pull off large-scale phishing scams. "Telekopye can craft phishing websites, emails, SMS...

Cybercriminals turn to ready-made bots for quick attacks
2023-11-23 05:30

Researchers assessed the attacks across three primary attack vectors: basic bots, intelligent bots, and human fraud farms. The analysis found bot attacks overall increased 167% in the H1 of 2023, weighted heavily by a 291% increase in intelligent bots.

AI-enabled bots can solve CAPTCHAs faster than humans
2023-10-13 03:00

Companies are losing revenue in the fight against malicious bot attacks, according to survey by Kasada. Despite spending millions of dollars on traditional bot management solutions, companies are still financially impacted by bot attacks.

AWS stirs the MadPot – busting bot baddies and eastern espionage
2023-10-02 10:45

Interview AWS has unveiled MadPot, its previously secret threat-intelligence tool that one of the cloud giant's security execs tells us has thwarted Chinese and Russian spies - and millions of bots. The massive honeypot system has been around since 2010, and includes tens of thousands of threat sensors monitoring criminals' attempts to connect with AWS decoys.

New Telegram Bot "Telekopye" Powering Large-scale Phishing Scams from Russia
2023-08-24 12:33

Dubbed Telekopye, a portmanteau of Telegram and kopye, the toolkit functions as an automated means to create a phishing web page from a premade template and send the URL to potential victims, codenamed Mammoths by the criminals. The attack chains proceed thus: Neanderthals find their Mammoths and try to build rapport with them, before sending a bogus link created using the Telekopye phishing kit via email, SMS, or a direct message.

Bots Are Better than Humans at Solving CAPTCHAs
2023-08-18 11:04

Abstract: For nearly two decades, CAPTCHAS have been widely used as a means of protection against bots. Throughout the years, as their use grew, techniques to defeat or bypass CAPTCHAS have continued to improve.

Google Cloud shores up log permissions for builder bot
2023-07-24 04:08

Infosec in brief A security weakness in Google Cloud Build could have allowed attackers to tamper with organizations' code repositories and application images, according to Orca Security researchers. The issue, as Google describes it, is more about poorly defined permissions.

Ukraine busts bot farm spreading Russian infowar propaganda and fraud
2023-07-20 07:30

Ukrainian cops have disrupted a massive bot farm with more than 100 operators allegedly spreading fake news about the Russian invasion, leaking personal information belonging to Ukrainian citizens, and instigating fraud schemes. "The Cyber Police established that the attackers used special equipment and software to register thousands of bot accounts in various social networks and subsequently launch advertisements that violated the norms and legislation of Ukraine," according to machine translation of the news alert issued by the police.

Ukraine takes down massive bot farm, seizes 150,000 SIM cards
2023-07-19 11:03

The Cyber ??Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine dismantled another massive bot farm linked to more than 100 individuals after searches at almost two dozen locations. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Russian threat actors have been involved in disinformation campaigns targeting Ukraine and have invested in Ukraine-based bot farms.

Twitter's bot spam keeps getting worse — it's about porn this time
2023-07-02 15:05

Forget crypto spam accounts, Twitter's got another problem which involves bots and accounts promoting adult content and infiltrating Direct Messages and interactions on the platform. In a tweet, security research group, MalwareHunterTeam exposed multiple Twitter accounts that are spam bots injecting themselves within interactions in the form of likes.