Soloway was indicted Wednesday in Seattle on 35 counts of mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, identity theft and money laundering in connection with advertising and sales of his company's "broadcast ...

If you've signed into Discord lately, you might've seen one of a number of bots offering the promise of free stuff in exchange for an invite to your server. As you might've guessed, these are fake, ...

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 ...

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. What follows is an interview with a Russian ...

Twitter reports that fewer than 5% of accounts are fakes or spammers, commonly referred to as “bots.” Since his offer to buy Twitter was accepted, Elon Musk has repeatedly questioned these estimates, ...

Spammers have cracked Microsoft Corp. ‘s latest defense against abuse of its Live Hotmail e-mail service using a sophisticated network of hacked computers that receive encrypted instructions from a ...

Last week, the Daily Dot taught you how to spot a Pinterest spammer. Now that same spammer has spotted us. After he read our article about his process of spamming Pinterest through thousands of bot ...