Security News

Bad bot traffic increases, gambling and airlines most targeted industries
2018-03-28 12:00

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...

Prevent bot traffic from ruining Google Analytics
2018-03-15 18:05

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...

Avoid Becoming a Crypto-Mining Bot: Where to Look for Mining Malware and How to Respond
2018-02-28 17:16

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...

Bitcoin traders beware: Fake trading bot offer delivers RAT
2017-12-08 18:59

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...

Bot-driven web traffic and its application security impact
2017-11-15 13:30

New research conducted by the Ponemon Institute, which focused on such highly targeted industries as retail, healthcare and financial services, exposes the proliferation of bot-driven web traffic...

Researchers turn LG’s Hom-Bot vacuum cleaner into a real-time spying device
2017-10-27 16:22

Check Point researchers have discovered a vulnerability in LG’s smart home infrastructure that could have allowed hackers to take over the legitimate user’s account and, through it, take remote...

These Cities House the Largest Bot Populations in the U.S.
2017-10-12 15:10

Botnets are widespread worldwide, serving whichever purpose they were designed to, and the United States is one of the largest sources of botnet attacks. Across the country, Chicago and Washington...

Variant of Android WireX Bot Delivers Powerful UDP Flood Attacks (Security Week)
2017-09-06 13:00

Variant of WireX Android Botnet is Able to Deliver High-volume UDP Flood DDoS Attacks read more

Bot vs Bot in the Never-Ending Cycle of Improving Artificial intelligence (Security Week)
2017-07-25 15:33

Artificial intelligence, usually in the form of machine learning (ML), is infosecurity's current buzz. Many consider it will be the savior of the internet, able to defeat hackers and malware by...

US Army Researching Bot Swarms (Schneier on Security)
2017-07-24 11:39

The US Army Research Agency is funding research into autonomous bot swarms. From the announcement: The objective of this CRA is to perform enabling basic and applied research to extend the reach,...