Meta is making it easier for Instagram content creators to deal with bots and spam followers with a new update.

Spam bots aren’t new, but where AkiraBot gets interesting is that it uses OpenAI’s language models to generate customized messages for each website it targets.

Although it might be possible to crack a botnet's command-and-control system to intercept the templates, the authors reasoned that an average bot can send out thousands of spam e-mails in a matter ...

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 ...

The next-most effective spam bot, said TRACElabs, is Mega-D, one of the bots that took advantage of the November 2008 takedown of McColo Corp., a hosting company that harbored the command-and ...

Twitter said it removes 1 million spam accounts each day in a call with executives Thursday during a briefing that aimed to shed more light on the company's fake and bot accounts as it tussles ...

The Pushdo botnet has been given a new domain name generation algorithm making it even more difficult for security researchers and law enforcement to knock out its command-and-control infrastructure.

Musk pledged to “defeat the spam bots or die trying” prior to his purchase of Twitter in 2022.

(AP) — Twitter said it removes 1 million spam accounts each day in a call with executives Thursday during a briefing that aimed to shed more light on the company's fake and bot accounts as it tussles ...