Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But since the beginning of 2024, a distinct style of spam bot has dominated the conversation — if you can call it that. Open the ...

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A new report out today from SentinelLabs, the research arm of cybersecurity company SentinelOne Inc., details a recently discovered artificial intelligence-powered spam tool that automates large-scale ...

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Soloway was indicted Wednesday in Seattle on 35 counts of mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, identity theft and money laundering in connection with advertising and sales of his company's "broadcast ...

Recently, the head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri shared that the Threads app would need to implement stricter rate limits [which limits how many posts a user can view] due to growing attacks from spam ...

Reddit has made it clear that it’s an ad-first business. Today, it expanded on that practice with a new ad format that aims to sell things to Reddit users. Simultaneously, Reddit has marketers who are ...

Even before Elon Musk lit a match under a pile of money and agreed to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share last April, he was talking a lot about bots. “If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter alternative, Instagram Threads, has been forced to implement rate limits in response to a growing number of reports citing spam attacks and crypto-shilling bots. Instagram ...

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Rowley said he suspects that the surge represents a rebuilding effort on the part of cyber criminals who have been licking their wounds from successful takedowns of botnets over the past two years.