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 ...

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Even before Elon Musk lit a match under a pile of money and agreed to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share last April, he was talking a lot about bots. “If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the ...

Some bot-infected PCs can crank out as many as 25,000 spam messages per hour, new research released Wednesday claimed. California-based Marshal8e6 deliberately infected machines in the lab of its ...

Billionaire Elon Musk on Friday put on hold his $44 billion-takeover plan for Twitter Inc., as he waited for details on the microblogging platform’s claim that fake accounts comprise less than 5% of ...

Internet users looking for information on Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s arrest will find another roadblock put in their way, after attacks on major websites and censoring of text messaging services. This ...

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 ...

Noticing a rise in AI bots spamming old threads with links to dodgy threads. i.e.: this. That's the third one I've seen in the past week. Just a thought, but can new accounts be denied permission to ...

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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 ...