Discord, the Voice over IP (VoIP) and instant message communications tool, is changing how usernames function in a major way soon. Many…
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Is it OK to train an AI on your images, without permission?
Website owners are once again at war with tools designed to scrape content from their sites. An AI scraper called img2dataset…
Ukraine shuts down disinformation bot farm
Given current world events, there’s an incredible amount of misinformation and disinformation around at the moment. Whether we’re talking 5G, the…
Gamers beware: The risks of Real Money Trading (RMT) explained
Any game with an online component can be at risk from a practice known as Real Money Trading (RMT), where in-game…
Nope, that isn’t Elon Musk, and he isn’t offering a free Topmist Dust watch either
Elon Musk is an incredibly popular target for scammers and spammers on social media. Attach his name to something he has…
Fired by algorithm: The future’s here and it’s a robot wearing a white collar
Black Mirror meets 1984. Imagine that your employer uses a bot to keep track of your “production level.” And when this…
A deep dive into Saint Bot, a new downloader
This post was authored by Hasherezade with contributions from Hossein Jazi and Erika Noerenberg In late March 2021, Malwarebytes analysts discovered…
New Golang brute forcer discovered amid rise in e-commerce attacks
E-commerce websites continue to be targeted by online criminals looking to steal personal and payment information directly from unaware shoppers. Recently,…
Avzhan DDoS bot dropped by Chinese drive-by attack
The Avzhan DDoS bot has been known since 2010, but recently we saw it in wild again, being dropped by a…
Drive-by cryptomining campaign targets millions of Android users
Malvertising and online fraud through forced redirects and Trojanized apps—to cite the two most common examples—are increasingly plaguing Android users. In many…