Free download: Botnet and IoT Security Guide 2020
The Council to Secure the Digital Economy (CSDE), a partnership between global technology, communications, and internet companies supported by USTelecom—The Broadband …
Researchers discover massive increase in Emotet activity
Emotet had a 730% increase in activity in September after being in a near dormant state, Nuspire discovered. Emotet, a modular banking Trojan, has added additional features to …
Global internet freedom declines for the ninth consecutive year
Governments around the world are increasingly using social media to manipulate elections and monitor their citizens, tilting the technology toward digital authoritarianism. As …
Cybercriminals are testing exposed credentials for future account takeover attacks
Fraud increased 30% overall in Q3 2019 and bot-driven account registration fraud is up 70% as cybercriminals test stolen credentials in advance of the holiday retail season, …
Researchers analyzed 16.4 billion requests to see how bots affect e-commerce
The sophistication level of bots attacking e-commerce sites is on the rise, with nearly four-fifths (79.2 percent) classified as moderate or sophisticated, up from 75.8 …
BotSlayer tool can detect coordinated disinformation campaigns in real time
A new tool in the fight against online disinformation has been launched, called BotSlayer, developed by the Indiana University’s Observatory on Social Media. The …
Fraudsters no longer operate in silos, they are attacking across industries and organizations
From January 2019 through June 2019, LexisNexis Risk Solutions recorded 16.4 billion transactions, of which 277 million were human-initiated attacks, a 13% increase over the …
Bots evolving to better mimic humans during elections
Bots or fake accounts enabled by artificial intelligence on social media have evolved and are now better able to copy human behaviors in order to avoid detection, according to …
Business security in the age of malicious bots
As most technologies, bots can be used for good and bad purposes, and the information security industry is doing its best to minimize the adverse effects of the latter …
Researchers develop app to detect Twitter bots in any language
Thanks to fruitful collaboration between language scholars and machine learning specialists, a new application that can detect Twitter bots independent of the language used …
Bad actors increasingly spreading misinformation via social media ahead of EU elections
Bad actors are amplifying misinformation content directed at EU member states to shape public perception, a report by SafeGuard Cyber reveals. The report provides evidence and …
As bad bots grow more sophisticated, so does the number of industries impacted by them
Bot attack sophistication continues to evolve, as advanced attackers learn to adapt their techniques in order to invalidate existing defense tactics, according to Distil …
