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What Is MCP? The New Protocol Reshaping AI Agent Security

| | ad fraud, Bot & Fraud Protection, bot management, cyberfraud
As AI agents take on more autonomous roles across the web, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) emerges as a promising, but risky, foundation for enabling secure, structured, and intent-aware interactions at scale ...
Blog – DataDome
Arkansas Social Media Consent Law, Android Malware Invasion, New Method of Keyless Car Theft

Arkansas Social Media Consent Law, Android Malware Invasion, New Method of Keyless Car Theft

| | ad fraud, android, Arkansas, Auto Industry, Car manufacturers, Car theft, Child protection, crime, Cyber Security, cyberbullying, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Episodes, facebook, Google Play Store, Information Security, Infosec, Keyless Entry, malicious apps, Malware, Minors, mobile devices, online safety, Parental consent, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, security, social media, technology, Tekya, Vulnerabilities, Weekly Edition
Is Arkansas taking the right step to protect children online? A new law passed in the state makes it illegal for minors to use social media without their parent or guardian’s consent ...
Shared Security Podcast
Reality Check: Automated Shopping Bots are a Business Problem

Reality Check: Automated Shopping Bots are a Business Problem

| | ad fraud, bot attacks, Bot Defense, bot detection, Card Fraud, checkout abuse, credential stuffing, ddos, Influence fraud, inventory hoarding, News and Trends, shopping bots, web recon, web scraping
Last week, I had the pleasure of participating in a webinar on automated shopping bots with Sandy Carielli, Security and Risk Analyst at Forrester Research. The webinar highlighted two things for me: ...
Cequence
Over 100 Android Apps Used ‘Soraka’ Package to Perform Ad Fraud

Over 100 Android Apps Used ‘Soraka’ Package to Perform Ad Fraud

| | ad fraud, android, IT Security and Data Protection, Latest Security News, Soraka
Researchers identified more than 100 apps that used a common code package named “Soraka” to perform ad fraud on users’ Android devices. The White Ops Threat Intelligence team observed that many of ...
The State of Security
Bots 101: This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

Bots 101: This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

| | ad fraud, Application Security, Attack Types & Vectors, Bots, credential stuffing, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, password spraying, Scraping, security
In our industry, the term bot applies to software applications designed to perform an automated task at a high rate of speed. Typically, I use bots at Radware to aggregate data for ...
Radware Blog
Ad Fraud 101: How Cybercriminals Profit from Clicks

Ad Fraud 101: How Cybercriminals Profit from Clicks

| | ad fraud, Attack Types & Vectors, botnet, botnets, click-fraud, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Identity Theft, iot, security
Fraud is and always will be a cornerstone of the cybercrime community. The associated economic gains provide substantial motivation for today’s malicious actors, which is reflected in the rampant use of identity ...
Radware Blog
U.S. Charges Two Iranians for SamSam Ransomware Attacks

U.S. Charges Two Iranians for SamSam Ransomware Attacks

| | 3ve botnet, ad fraud, Boaxxe, click-fraud, Kovter, Miuref, samsam
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged two Iranian men for creating and distributing a ransomware program called SamSam that caused massive disruptions in hospitals, municipalities and public institutions over the past ...
Security Boulevard
Malicious ad/click networks: common or forgotten threat?

Malicious ad/click networks: common or forgotten threat?

| | ad fraud, ad networks, click networks, click-fraud, click-jacking, clickfraud, clickjacking, Farajallah, KovCoreG, Kovter, Maltego
IntroductionMalicious ad/click networks and ad fraud are not entirely a new phenomenon, but it is important to realize the kind of threat it may pose. Is it a common, or forgotten threat? ...
Blaze's Security Blog