Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has warned that automated bot traffic could overtake human activity on the internet by 2027, a projection that carries serious consequences for publishers, advertisers, ...

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, ...

A new report is shedding light on a February 2026 malign influence campaign tied to the Russian-linked “Matryoshka” bot network, highlighting how artificial intelligence is being used to scale and ...

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 ...

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 ...

(NEW YORK) — One minute, they were cranking out an endless stream of tweets, pushing conservative-leaning news articles or fiery video commentary. The next, they were gone, without a trace or an ...

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 ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has acquired a social network for AI bots in a bet on a future in which robotic “agents” carry out work on humans’ behalf.

Cisco’s Talos security group this week warned that a variant of trojan monster Zeus has begun to garner a following in the cyber-underworld as a hard-to-detect attack mechanism. “[Floki bot] is based ...

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 ...