Although Symantec's claim that bots are on the downturn contradicts recent research by the Honeynet Project, which last week said that as many as a million machines may be kidnapped by botnets, the ...

A new Internet Relay Channel (IRC) bot, which is built with the help of the Perl language-based Shellbot, is targeting Windows-based environments, along with Ubuntu Linux and even Android devices, ...

Social media bots are fake accounts that use automated or semi-automated programming to infiltrate platforms and shape how humans behave online. Groups or individuals create social media bots for a ...