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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maia Sandu. Stock photo: Getty Images Matryoshka, a pro-Kremlin bot network, has launched a campaign on Twitter and BlueSky ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. The AI bots are deployed by Apate.ai - a cyber-intelligence ...

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 ...

With the aid of open-source tools, Internet researcher Lawrence Alexander gathered and visualised data on nearly 20,500 pro-Kremlin Twitter accounts, revealing the massive scale of information ...

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, ...