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Tag Archives: bots
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.
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.
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 like?
Ad fraud: Fake local news sites are rolling in the dough
“forbesbusinessinsider.com?” Names like that sound close enough to real news domains to pass, but bots are the only ones visiting.
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.
Backdoored GitHub accounts spewed secret sneakerbot software
Researchers have uncovered a network of GitHub accounts containing backdoored versions of legitimate software.
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.
‘Grinch bots’ are ruining holiday shopping. Lawmakers hit back
The bill would outlaw automated scripts that snap up discounted holiday must-haves so resellers can gouge people with exorbitant markups.