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 ...

Elon Musk and X, formerly known as Twitter, said Thursday that X is beginning a purge of bots that have persisted on the platform since before Musk purchased it in 2022, the latest measure taken by ...

Forget crypto spam accounts, Twitter's got another problem which involves bots and accounts promoting adult content and infiltrating Direct Messages and interactions on the platform. And there doesn't ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Joe Stewart, senior security researcher at SecureWorks, has posted an analysis of a Trojan program called SpamThru on his company's Web site. As far as malware goes, it's a marvel.SpamThru features a ...

The CryptoQuant founder warned that X’s failure to curb bot spam is triggering algorithmic penalties that suppress legitimate crypto content and damage the platform’s most active niche.

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 ...