U.S. prosecutors have charged a 22-year-old man for allegedly running one of the most powerful bot networks observed in recent years. Ethan J. Foltz from Eugene, Oregon, was arrested Aug. 6 and stands ...

A previously unreported network of hundreds of accounts on X is using artificial intelligence to automatically reply to conservatives with positive messages about people in the Trump administration, ...

Federal prosecutors have charged a 22-year-old Oregon man with operating a vast network of hacked devices that has been blamed for knocking Elon Musk’s X social-media site offline earlier this year.

There are many kinds of tools that can help detect the presence of a bot. Log management and SIEM tools are helpful in detecting the communication that is a hallmark of a botnet. Experts provide their ...

Matryoshka, a pro-Kremlin bot network, has launched a campaign on Twitter and BlueSky against Moldovan President Maia Sandu. Source: The Insider, a Russian news outlet, as reported by European Pravda ...

That remarkable schism between automated X accounts is described in a new report from Alethea, an analytics firm that specializes in online risk mitigation technology. Its AI platform, Artemis, ...

In an associated trend, the bulk of those Windows-attacking worms and viruses came with a backdoor component. Such backdoors, like those deployed by worms as varied as MyDoom and Bagle, are becoming ...

In early 2022, a senior employee at the Russian state news agency RT pitched his superiors on an idea: could RT create an in-house social media bot farm to reach people outside of its traditional news ...

A massive spike in the number of phishing sites in October lead the group's analysts to conclude that criminals are getting more sophisticated in their attack techniques and technologies. From ...