Dmitry Volkov, CTO of Group-IB, talks about the rise of bots in cybercrime. Bots are used to run highly automated and scalable social engineering attacks, web scraping, credential stuffing and more. Volkov: “With bot activity for web scraping and credential stuffing, the main driver is a huge number of leaked databases” He also discusses the decline of banking Trojans and rise of ransomware and the use of botnet command-and-control servers to run large, automated campaigns.”]
Source: https://www.govinfosecurity.com/rise-bots-criminal-attacks-grow-more-automated-a-15417