Artificial intelligence (AI) platforms are making criminals' lives easier and those of their targets worse with internet ...

DON’T @ ME. It’s hard enough to figure out when humans are running a cryptocurrency scam. Now, it seems we have to worry about bots perpetuating them, too. While conducting a study to figure out the ...

If you hang out on enough social media sites, you’re likely familiar with a certain type of post: Someone’s cat suddenly fell sick and racked up a vet bill or someone’s between jobs and needs a rent ...

CHICO — Oh boy I’ve been holding onto this one for a while and I’m excited to finally be writing it. I’ve written before about bot scams on social media that comment on popular posts, or reply to ...

Twitter, the platform formally known as X, has a bot problem. If you want to see just how bad it is, I’ll teach you the magic words that summon the machines. For the past year, Don Marti has been ...

A 2023 cryptocurrency trading bot scam was recently unearthed by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and led to the arrest of its proprietor, Robert Robb, earlier this March. The criminal allegedly ...

New research published today, Aug. 6, has shed light on the infamous phenomenon of cryptocurrency-related Twitter accounts advertising fake “giveaways,” revealing a network of at least 15,000 scam ...

Researchers at Duo Labs have discovered that Twitter is home to at least 15,000 scam bots and have published their findings in a new report. Between May and July of 2018, staff members observed, ...