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Elon Musk appears to offer $1 million bounty to 'convict' those responsible for Twitter 'botnets'

A Twitter user identified negative feedback loops affecting "reputation scores," and another claime…

Ryan Hogg   


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United States has reportedly dismantled a Russian botnet that hacked millions of devices

The US Department of Justice, together with law enforcement partners in Germany, the Netherlands…

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Microsoft said it thwarted a sprawling network of bots that could have been used to target election infrastructure

Microsoft said it disrupted servers that were used to run Trickbot, a notorious botnet that has bee…

Aaron Holmes   


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A hacker ran a sprawling, undetected network of bots that infected over 10,000 devices just to download anime

The botnet went mostly undetected for 7 years because it served such a narrow purpose and used just…

Aaron Holmes   


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2 Indian companies give in to Middle East hackers, pay $10 million to hide info

Apparently, the hackers had access to the IT systems of the companies and were waiting for the righ…

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Hackers have found a way to use Twitter direct messages to control botnets

A botnet is a group of compromised (or hacked) computers that are controlled by one individual, usu…

Max Slater-Robins   


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A wildly popular Google Chrome extension was being used as a giant botnet

With no indication on the homepage, it's doubtful that many users realise that Hola is selling thei…

Rob Price   


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This Is What It Looks Like When A Click-Fraud Botnet Secretly Controls Your Web Browser

Spider.io obtained a copy of "Zeus," a notorious piece of "root-kit" software that nestles inside t…

Jim Edwards   


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Botnets Will Cause $11.6 Billion In Wasted Ad Spending This Year

Solve Media's technology uses CAPTCHA technology to prove that visitors to a web page are human by …

Aaron Taube   


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A Russian Botnet Is Attacking The Secret Internet For Criminals - And No One Knows Why

Typically, it is fairly clear what the purpose of malware is, such as banking, clickfraud, ransomwa…

Jim Edwards   


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Hackers Have Built Their Own Mobile Ad Networks That Install Malware Onto Your Phone

"This is where things get extremely interesting," Williamson said in an interview. "The issue is th…

Jim Edwards   


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Twitter Appears To Be Fighting A Massive Botnet, Possibly Involving Millions Of Accounts

Nor is it clear why hackers would want to control a network of bogus accounts that simply retweets …

Jim Edwards   


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The CEO of a wildly popular app that was used as a giant botnet fires back at his critics

Vilenski remains positive about the future of the platform. It has seen no meaningful decrease in u…

Rob Price   


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This Company Alleges A Huge Portion Of Online Advertising Is Based On Fraud

We've actually seen leading household brand campaigns that are 80% fraudulent. That number probably…

Jim Edwards   


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BOTNETS: How Hackers Can Control Your Computer Remotely For Mayhem And Profit

One of the most popular means of gaining access to a computer is to hide a Trojan in an email attac…

Dylan Love   


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Police around the world teamed up in their biggest effort yet to takedown hackers, but cybercrime is hard to stem

"Operation Endgame" led to the dismantling of more than 100 malicious computer servers worldwide, b…

Natalie Musumeci   


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‘Too smart to steal’: AI, made to help, faces backlash for data scraping

Launch of AI chatbots has sparked debates about data usage by AI companies to train their models. C…

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Scientists found more than 1,000 AI spam bots trying to scam people and steal their social media profiles and regulators can't keep up

Social media is being flooded with spammy AI content. Research by Indiana University details how ar…

Shubham Agarwal   


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IoT malware attacks up by 400% this year: Report

Malware attacks against Internet of Things (IoT) and Operational Technology (OT) devices have incre…

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Elon Musk's $1 million Twitter bounty

In this edition: Twitch's CEO was caught off guard, Tim Cook tells parents and schools to put hard …

Asia Martin