Results for 'bots'
New Discord username policy raises user privacy fears
May 10, 2023 - Discord, the Voice over IP (VoIP) and instant message communications tool, is changing how usernames function in a major way soon. Many...
Newspaper evades Russian censors, hides news in Counter-Strike map
May 5, 2023 - A Finnish newspaper is making clever use of popular video game titles to promote press freedom and bypass Russian media restrictions...
AI-powered content farms start clogging search results with ad-stuffed spam
May 4, 2023 - A recent study by NewsGuard, trackers of online misinformation, makes some alarming discoveries about the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in...
Is it OK to train an AI on your images, without permission?
May 2, 2023 - Website owners are once again at war with tools designed to scrape content from their sites. An AI scraper called img2dataset...
Adult content malvertising scheme leads to clickjacking
April 24, 2023 - Malwarebytes’ researchers have found a malvertising scheme that leads to clickjacking. Clickjacking is a form of ad fraud which is also...
“Log-out king” Instagram scammer gets accounts taken down, then charges to reinstate them
March 28, 2023 - A fraudster going by “OBN Brandon” has been defrauding Instagram influencers and entertainment figures out of hundreds of thousands of dollars...
Multilingual skimmer fingerprints ‘secret shoppers’ via Cloudflare endpoint API
February 21, 2023 - One important aspect of data theft in criminal markets revolves around the authenticity of the data that is being resold. There...
Two Supreme Court cases could change the Internet as we know it
February 17, 2023 - The Supreme Court is about to reconsider Section 230, a law that’s been the foundation of the way we have used...
WordPress sites backdoored with ad fraud plugin
February 16, 2023 - WordPress is an immensely popular content management system (CMS) powering over 43% of all websites. Many webmasters will monetize their sites...
A private moment, caught by a Roomba, ended up on Facebook. Eileen Guo explains how: Lock and Code S04E03
January 30, 2023 - In 2020, a photo of a woman sitting on a toilet—her shorts pulled half-way down her thighs—was shared on Facebook, and...
