U.S. prosecutors have charged a 22-year-old man for allegedly running one of the most powerful bot networks observed in recent years. Ethan J. Foltz from Eugene, Oregon, was arrested Aug. 6 and stands ...

A previously unreported network of hundreds of accounts on X is using artificial intelligence to automatically reply to conservatives with positive messages about people in the Trump administration, ...

Federal prosecutors have charged a 22-year-old Oregon man with operating a vast network of hacked devices that has been blamed for knocking Elon Musk’s X social-media site offline earlier this year.

In early 2022, a senior employee at the Russian state news agency RT pitched his superiors on an idea: could RT create an in-house social media bot farm to reach people outside of its traditional news ...

In an associated trend, the bulk of those Windows-attacking worms and viruses came with a backdoor component. Such backdoors, like those deployed by worms as varied as MyDoom and Bagle, are becoming ...

Turning Point USA is reportedly using coordinated bot farms to attack critics and control online discussions about Charlie ...

Analysts said a 16-day gap in meddling posts about British politics offered direct evidence of state-sponsored interference online. When Israeli strikes hit Iran on June 13, it wasn’t only nuclear ...

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