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 ...

Last Monday was a great day for us in the office. @ZDNet hit the 400,000 follower mark on Twitter; a joyous moment marked by me in a brief note to our senior editor who, among many things, runs the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Twitter merges its spam bot and misinformation teams shortly after its former head of security, Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, claims that the social media giant has persisting bot and security problems.

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 ...

Bots can tweet at people, share tweets, follow and be followed by other people. And there are good bots and bad. By Sheera Frenkel On Friday, the tech billionaire Elon Musk announced that he was ...

An arbitrage bot managed to turn 14 ETH to 218.5 ETH simply by spamming the Polygon network for 120 days. The growth of layer-two protocols has been one of the major stories of 2021 as the rising ...