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Every website with a login page faces Account Takeover attempts, which increase 300% after a data breach, according to Distil Networks.

Hong Kong - It has been jokingly referred to as "Botmageddon". But a surge in new, anonymous Twitter accounts across swathes of Southeast and East Asia has deepened fears the region is in the...

Bots run by shady websites are creating thousands of phantom pages

The use of automated bots is becoming more prevalent for novice attackers as tools become more available, researchers found.

Hi! How may we pwn you today? Hackers are feared to have swiped sensitive personal information held by two of the best known companies in the US – after malware infected a customer support software maker.…

Bad bots are big news largely because of the FBI investigation into Russia's involvement in the 2016 presidential election. But bad bots are a bigger problem than automated tweeting: 42.2% of all...

Distil Networks analyzed hundreds of billions of bad bot requests at the application layer to provide insight and guidance on the nature and impact of automated threats in 2017. Bad bots are up...

Distil Bot Discovery for Google Analytics is a free offering that will give website owners the ability to understand the impact of bots on their business. The service is provided by Distil...

At a white elephant party in northern Colorado in December, a friend of mine was telling me that he’d borrowed against his children’s college funds to put money into three different...

As the price of Bitcoin keeps hitting surprising heights, more and more cyber crooks are turning their sights on anything and anyone who trades or uses the popular cryptocurrency. The latest...