Researchers have uncovered a massive bot farm on Twitter dedicated to boosting former President Donald Trump as he gears up for the 2024 campaign. The network of bots has spent the better part of a ...

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 ...

Someone has created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts — perhaps hundreds of thousands of them — to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump over the past 11 months, an Israeli tech firm ...

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, ...

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 ...

Bot networks are now a brand problem, too. Coordinated webs of fake social-media personas have historically been the domain of fraudsters and state-based actors, such as the infamous Russian troll ...

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

WASHINGTON — Over the last 11 months, someone created thousands of fake automated Twitter accounts — perhaps hundreds of thousands of them — to offer a stream of praise for former President Trump.

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.

There are many kinds of tools that can help detect the presence of a bot. Log management and SIEM tools are helpful in detecting the communication that is a hallmark of a botnet. Experts provide their ...