Misinformation and disinformation have scaled in the Information Age. MIT researchers analyzed 126,000 stories between 2006 and 2016 and found that false stories spread six times faster than true ...

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 ...

Data breaches are nothing new when it comes to various websites and social networks. Recently a cybercriminal forum has begun selling access to what it claims to be a database of phone numbers that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s unclear who’s behind the network or which AI chatbot was used to power it. (Tilde Oyster / NBC News; Getty Images) (Tilde ...

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 ...

Two of the world's largest bot networks were shut down in a major international operation, authorities announced on Friday. German, US and Canadian cybercrime specialists joined forces to dismantle ...

New research uncovers how a network of bot accounts pushed cryptocurrency on Twitter with help from ChatGPT. Credit: CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images X, the Elon Musk-owned social media platform ...

India, Dec. 12 -- Late at night, when tensions rise in the region, social media suddenly fills with the same kind of posts. Dozens, sometimes hundreds, of accounts share identical videos, the same ...

In November 2021, Tord Lundström, the technical director at Swedish digital forensics nonprofit Qurium Media, noticed something strange. A massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack was ...

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, ...