Security News

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,...

Social Media 'Bots' From Russia Distorting Global Politics: Study (Security Week)
2017-06-22 11:09

A wave of "computational propaganda," largely driven by Russia, is impacting politics around the world by spreading misinformation designed to manipulate public opinion, researchers said Tuesday. read more

CIO Diary: Lessons from the FCC bot-swarm attack (ZDNet)
2017-05-19 14:48

A bot is flooding the FCC's website with fake anti-net neutrality comments (ZDNet)
2017-05-10 15:33

Google's Fuzz bot exposes over 1,000 open-source bugs (ZDNet)
2017-05-09 09:03

Russian hacker arrested in Spain for bot-herding not election-fiddling (The Register)
2017-04-24 08:02

Twitter has a spam bot problem and it's getting worse (ZDNet)
2017-04-23 18:03

20,000-bots-strong Sathurbot botnet grows by compromising WordPress sites (Help Net Security)
2017-04-07 15:40

A 20,000-bots-strong botnet is probing WordPress sites, trying to compromise them and spread a backdoor downloader Trojan called Sathurbot as far and as wide as possible. Sathurbot: A versatile...

Self-Proclaimed ‘Nuclear Bot’ Author Weighs U.S. Job Offer (Krebs on Security)
2017-04-06 14:22

The author of a banking Trojan called Nuclear Bot -- a teenager living in France -- recently released the source code for his creation just months after the malware began showing up for sale in...

Bad bots attack 96% of websites with login pages (Help Net Security)
2017-03-17 12:30

Almost every website with a login page is under attack from bad bots, the automated programs used to carry out a variety of nefarious activities, according to Distil Networks. “Website defenders...