Holiday-season scams now hit businesses as hard as consumers, with bots, spoofed sites, and AI-driven phishing targeting employees across SSO, VPN, and admin portals.

This checklist highlights practical steps security teams can take now — from enforcing strong MFA to tuning bot-detection rules and running focused awareness pushes before Black Friday and Christmas. Download it here: https://www.lmgsecurity.com/resources/holiday-fraud-defense-checklist/

#Cybersecurity #FraudPrevention #MFA #DNSFiltering #BotDetection #SecurityAwareness #BYOD #Phishing

Nghiên cứu về phát hiện bot hiện đại: Fingerprinting đa lớp (TLS/JA3, Canvas, Biometrics) #PhátHiệnBot #Fingerprinting #AnNinhMạng #BotDetection #CyberSecurity #AnToànThôngTin

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1okyk2z/i_compiled_my_research_on_modern_bot_detection/

"Các tác nhân AI đang đối mặt với thách thức phát hiện bot khi hoạt động trên các trang web thực tế. Làm thế nào để các nhà phát triển xử lý vấn đề này? Các giải pháp như "humanization" hay chạy trong phiên trình duyệt thực sự của người dùng có hiệu quả? #AI #BotDetection #WebAgent #TríTuệNhânTạo #PhátHiệnBot"

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1o1zlt0/how_are_production_ai_agents_dealing_with_bot/

⚠️ Researchers showed ChatGPT-4o can solve CAPTCHAs if convinced they’re “fake.”

✔️ Worked on one-click + text CAPTCHAs
✔️ Partial success on image puzzles
❓ Raises the question: Is CAPTCHA still a viable human test?
💬 Should we retire CAPTCHAs — or fight harder to keep them relevant?

👉 Follow @technadu for cyber + AI security coverage.

#CAPTCHA #ChatGPT #AIsecurity #Infosec #PromptInjection #DataPrivacy #BotDetection

😆 Ah, The Register, where cutting-edge #journalism meets the 403 Forbidden error. 🇺🇸💼 Apparently, the US is threatening extra tariffs on countries that dare to regulate their tech overlords, but good luck reading about it while battling bot detection! 📴🔒
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/trump_tech_tax_threat/ #TheRegister #TechTariffs #BotDetection #403Forbidden #HackerNews #ngated

🔍 / #software / #automation / #BotDetection

Weigh the soul of incoming HTTP requests using proof-of-work to stop AI crawlers

🐱🔗 https://laravista.altervista.org/CatLink/links/310

#catlink #SoftwareAutomation #SoftwareAutomationBotDetection

🕵️‍♂️🔍 A noble quest to decode the mysteries of a bot detection script, because, you know, #privacy matters, or something. The author's Herculean effort to untangle #JavaScript spaghetti would be impressive if it weren't so pointlessly convoluted. 🧩🤦‍♂️ Just remember, kids: everything's a string until you need it to be an integer!
https://www.nullpt.rs/reversing-botid #botDetection #codingMysteries #programmingHumor #developerLife #HackerNews #ngated

A short history of web bots and bot detection techniques

https://sinja.io/blog/bot-or-not

#HackerNews #webbots #botdetection #history #technology #automation

Think your parcel is popular? Think again. Discover how we built a smarter algorithm that filters fake traffic and reveals true virtual land popularity in a virtual world. 📊✨ #virtualworlds #metaverse #secondlife #parcelpopularity #botdetection #realtraffic

https://jackiewallacesl.substack.com/p/designing-a-real-popularity-algorithm

🤖 So, apparently, we're creating an "invisible" Turing Test now—because regular visibility is just too mainstream 🤦‍♂️. 🤔 Google's reCAPTCHA v3 is basically the Sherlock Holmes of bot detection... except when it's not. But hey, if you want to play detective, check out sections 2 and 3 for some thrilling mouse movement drama! 🎭
https://research.roundtable.ai/proof-of-human/ #invisibleTuringTest #GoogleReCAPTCHA #botDetection #mouseMovementDrama #techHumor #HackerNews #ngated

DoubleVerify fraud lawsuit shakes digital ad verification market: DoubleVerify faces class action lawsuit alleging systematic fraud and ineffective bot detection amid 36% stock plunge. https://ppc.land/doubleverify-fraud-lawsuit-shakes-digital-ad-verification-market/ #DoubleVerify #DigitalAdvertising #AdFraud #ClassAction #BotDetection

Detect and crash Chromium bots with one weird trick (bots hate it)

https://blog.castle.io/detect-and-crash-chromium-bots-with-one-weird-trick-bots-hate-it/

#HackerNews #DetectChromiumBots #CrashBots #BotDetection #WebSecurity #TechTricks

Cloudflare has unveiled AI Labyrinth, a system that misleads unauthorized AI crawling bots by trapping them in auto-generated content mazes.

#AI #Cloudflare #AILabyrinth #AITraining #WebScraping #BotDetection #GenAI #WebSecurity #Copyright #Publishers #Web

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/03/21/cloudflare-deploys-ai-labyrinth-to-exhaust-unauthorized-ai-crawling-bots-xcxwbn/

Chris Horn knows what he is talking about - co-founder of Iona technology and a computer scientist. Quite extraordinary article showing that much of the internet traffic generated in Ireland is dodgy.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/innovation/2024/07/04/why-is-almost-three-quarters-of-all-internet-traffic-in-ireland-of-malicious-intent/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0YceIzf7Uz9axJAzwe9ZOx6xCDYxORynqY2JxOhg-jRp501NjqDkwoQTE_aem_KcJuqr2iINMZobLU-U2dyw

#BotDetection #WebScraping #CyberSecurity

🤖 #AppTrana #Bot Management Update 🤖

With AppTrana's latest #botmanagement enhancements, users can now define what a bot means for their application's unique context and establish custom mitigation actions based on the user's behaviour.

Learn more about this enhancement here: https://bit.ly/3zt6fXy

#botpolicies #webapplications #botdetection #falsepositives #botattacks #bots #botprotection #scraperbots #botmitigation #indusface

Today, I visited #Twitter for the first time in a month or two. As per usual, I had a few new followers. I went to look at their likes but couldn't; I only now consciously realize likes were my reliable bot test. A normal person will have like clusters — 3 or more in a row with commonalities: topic, tone, media, same user, language, etc. The bot likes were random and often included garbage posts.

Is that why they removed likes? Prob not, but...

#BotDetection

😤 Sneaker bots are driving up prices and making new releases unattainable. 👟

💣 Learn about the impact and how to combat these bots. https://bit.ly/3x5ZSZq

#sneakerbots #badbots #shoebots #xss #websitevulnerability #botdetection #bots #botmanagement #botprotection #waap #falsepositives #apptrana #indusface

👉 Social media bots can disrupt your advertising, skew metrics, and impact interactions.

Discover effective ways to identify and mitigate them: https://bit.ly/3X5VW5C

#socialmediabots #badbots #socialbots #badbots #botdetection #botmitigation #botprotection #botmanagement #waap #managedservices #apptrana #indusface

Well, I didn't buy this band shirt because I just liked the logo. 😆

Go ahead system, test me... Bring it on. 🤘

#BotDetection #website #eCommerce

This is a really neat bit of research on canvas fingerprinting browsers and what that looks like.

https://cohost.org/ejs/post/4175999-visualizing-canvas-f

#infosec #browsers #javascript #privacy #botdetection