Yeezy Fans Face Sneaker-Bot Armies for Hot Kicks Releases

Shopping bots are likely to make it tough for everyday sneakerheads to get their hands on a pair of new Adidas Yeezy shoes from Kanye West as more styles become available through retailers in the next few months. Researchers at Cequence Security track bots across the internet, and the company’s...

How Grinch Buying Bots Took the Gaming Hardware Market Hostage

In video games jargon, the phrase “Console Wars" refers to the fierce competition between hardware manufacturers for market share. It turns out, however, that the only war going on at the moment is for acquiring a console. And thus far, Grinch Bots are winning. Video Games’ Popularity Is Peaking...

Telegram Bots at Heart of Classiscam Scam-as-a-Service

A new automated scam-as-a-service has been unearthed, which leverages Telegram bots in order to steal money and payment data from European victims. The scam, which researchers call Classiscam, is being sold as a service by Russian-speaking cybercriminals, and has been used by at least 40 separate...

Prepare for more sophisticated security threats in 2021

As computing becomes more distributed to achieve greater optimization and efficiency, the threats posed by cyberattackers are destined to become increasingly more sophisticated. Here are some steps organizations should take in 2021 to mitigate such sophisticated security threats. Start with...

The Evolution of Bad Bots from Grinchbots to Parasitic Bots-as-a-Service

The doomsday pandemic prediction is that you wont be able to buy toilet paper because bad bots will have hoarded all the inventory and are offering it to the highest bidder on secondary markets at an exorbitant mark-up. The Gaming Console War The use of scalping bots was once the domain of ticket...

Google ReCaptcha flaw lets bots bypass audio captcha challenge

By Sudais Asif According to researchers, the idea of the attack is to grab the MP3 file of the audio reCAPTCHA and submit it to Google's own Speech to Text API. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Google ReCaptcha flaw lets bots bypass audio captcha challenge...

CVE-2020-12595

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2020-12-10 12:33:49+00:00| seen| https://t.me/cibsecurity/18722 2020-12-10 12:41:12+00:00| seen| https://t.me/cibsecurity/18742 2020-12-10 13:25:27+00:00| seen| https://t.me/cibsecurity/18762 2020-12-10 14:03:18+00:00| seen| https://t.me/cibsecurity/187...

Scalper-Bots Shake Down Desperate PS5, Xbox Series X Shoppers

It’s a big week for gamers across the globe, with imminent, dueling releases of Xbox Series X and PlayStation PS5. However, an army of retail bots threaten to drive prices up as much as three times the retail price, putting the coveted holiday gifts well out of reach of everyday fans. Retailers...

Privilege Escalation in Channelmgnt plug-in for Sopel

Impact Malicious users are able to op/voice and take over a channel Patches On version 1.0.3 Workarounds Disable channelmgnt References https://phab.bots.miraheze.wiki/T117 For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: Email us at staffatmirahezebotsdotorg...

How Criminals Attack the Games Industry

If you work in the video games industry, it's already obvious that security is a challenge, and criminals are a threat. But how much do you know about how the criminal economy works? What actually motivates them? What specific methods do they use? And how do they interact with one another? If you...

How bad bots are targeting the healthcare sector

Credential cracking, or password spraying, is one of the most effective ways for cybercriminals to get access to user accounts. It refers to the brute-force automated cracking, or pairing of usernames and passwords by using sophisticated high-speed bots. According to a National Cyber Awareness...

Bot Mafias Have Wreaked Havoc in 'World of Warcraft Classic'

Blizzard has suspended or closed over 74,000 accounts in the last month, as bots have upended the game's economy...

Hackers use Github bot to steal $1,200 in ETH within 100 seconds

By Sudais Asif Hackers are remotely stealing cryptocurrencies using bots on Github. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers use Github bot to steal $1,200 in ETH within 100 seconds...

Imperva Cloud WAF Customers Can Easily Integrate Advanced Bot Protection for Increased Security

Almost 25% of web traffic is bad bots, and only growing both in volume and sophistication. This information and more is available in Imperva’s annual Bad Bot Report 2020. What are bad bots? They are not benign. Bad bots plague websites, mobile applications, and APIs with the goal of high-speed an...

ThreatList: Human-Mimicking Bots Spike, Targeting e-Commerce and Travel

Bad bots, bad bots, whatcha gonna do? Target e-commerce, the travel industry, media and online marketplaces, that’s what. Those are the top four verticals attacked by bots in the last year, according to data released on Wednesday from Radware, with e-commerce accounting for the most activity. In...

Lock and Code S1Ep5: Mythbusting and understanding VPNs with JP Taggart

This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs and around the Internet. In addition, we talk to JP Taggart, senior security researcher at Malwarebytes, about VPNs—debunking their myths, explaining their actual capabilities, and providing some advice...

Automatic Instacart Bots

Instacart is taking legal action against bots that automatically place orders: Before it closed, to use Cartdash users first selected what items they want from Instacart as normal. Once that was done, they had to provide Cartdash with their Instacart email address, password, mobile number, tip...

Advanced Bot Protection integrated into Imperva’s Cloud Application Security

Today, Imperva announced the general availability of Advanced Bot Protection that now fully integrates the industry-leading bot protection technology into its Cloud Application Security platform. By integrating Advanced Bot Protection this enables true defense-in-depth security by delivering bot...

Bad Bot Report 2020: Bad Bots Strike Back

The 7th Annual Bad Bot Report is now available from Imperva. Prepared by data from Imperva’s Threat Research Lab, it provides a comprehensive look at the bad bot landscape and the impact of this malicious traffic across multiple industries. Bad bot traffic rose to 24.1%, it’s highest proportion...

Discord users tempted by bots offering “free Nitro games”

The last few weeks have seen multiple instances of problematic bots appearing in Discord channels. They bring tidings of gifts, but the reality is quite a bit different. Given so many more young kids and teens are at home during the current global lockdown, they may well see this scam bouncing...