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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
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…
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
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
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…
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
‘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…
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
IoT malware attacks up by 400% this year: Report
Malware attacks against Internet of Things (IoT) and Operational Technology (OT) devices have incre…
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 …