Online shopping bots are not new to the e-commerce world. Stores use bots to offer better customer service, but malicious bots can cause major harm to a business. These pose…
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RATicate malware gang goes commercial
O, what tangled code we weave, when first we practise to deceive!
‘Bot or Not?’ – a game to train us to spot chatbots faking it as humans
Can you tell whether you’re talking to a human or AI?
Facebook to verify identities on accounts that churn out viral posts
Hopefully it’s a COVID-19 version of what it did post-2016 elections, when it required verification of those buying political or issue ads.
Bot creates millions of fake eyeballs to rip off smart-TV advertisers
The massive ICEBUCKET scheme has, so far, impersonated more than 2m people in 30+ countries, defrauding more than 300 brands of ad dollars. This post appeared first on Naked Security…
Hijacked Twitter accounts used to advertise face masks
The accounts were used to advertise a site selling products made scarce by COVID-19: face masks, forehead thermometers and toilet paper. This post appeared first on Naked Security Blog by…
Russia’s FSB wanted its own IoT botnet
If you thought the Mirai botnet was bad, what about a version under the control of Russia’s military that it could point like an electronic cannon at people it didn’t…
Report: 53% of social media logins are fraud
Most attacks are from botnets. The goals: spreading spam, stealing data, spreading propaganda, and social-engineering consumers for profit. This post appeared first on Naked Security Blog by Sophos Author: Lisa…
Backdoored GitHub accounts spewed secret sneakerbot software
Researchers have uncovered a network of GitHub accounts containing backdoored versions of legitimate software. This post appeared first on Naked Security Blog by Sophos Author: Danny Bradbury
Text CAPTCHAs easily beaten by neural networks
As CAPTCHA-haters know to their frequent irritation, the death of the text-based Completely Automated Procedures for Telling Computers and Humans Apart tends to be exaggerated. This post appeared first on…