A new report is out claiming that Russian bad actors are increasingly pouring misinformation through social media channels with a clear goal to influence the...
Tag - bots
In the world’s first machine-against-machine battle, bug-hunting bots proved they can find and exploit intricate software vulnerabilities with remarkable speed...
Indiana University researchers have developed a new app that identifies Twitter accounts controlled by automated software designed to flood online...
A series of bots have invaded dating app Tinder and are spreading “Castle Clash” downloads after luring users with tempting profiles and pictures...
Botmasters are generally known for their laziness. As long as the current methods keep working, there would be little motivation for develop innovative malware...
Command and control are essential steps tin maintaining an operational botnet, but at the same time, they are the weakest link of the system.
Now that we have seen what bots are able to do as individual entities, let
Bots are highly specialized tools that can perform multiple tasks for their masters. However, they all share a common set of essential features. The common...
Although most bots come with identical feature sets, and usually inflict severe damage to the host computer, there are multiple types of bots that differ in...
Modern botnets are using social engineering tactics to trick the user into unwillingly installing malicious code on their computer.