Botnets increasingly are creating phony online accounts on legitimate websites and online communities in order to steal information from enterprises. Botnet expert says bots are showing up en masse to customer-facing websites posing as people. The Iran-linked APT is targeting Israeli scholars and U.S. government employees in a credential-stealing effort. The relentless rise in COVID-19 cases is battering already frayed healthcare systems and ransomware criminals are using the opportunity to strike.
Source: https://threatpost.com/captchas-get-botnet-beatdown-060210/74045/