Bots increase the impact of malware, and social engineering through the sheer number of people they can reach almost instantaneously. These bottom-feeding Internet robots are responsible for a variety of enterprise losses including brand damage and lost revenues from unsatisfactory, counterfeit products. Spam bots leave people with faulty merchandise and all sorts of link-based, secretly insinuated malware from ransomware to rootkits. Porn bots expose the enterprise to potentially damaging content such as child pornography, which causes legal entanglements, according to James Brown, Chief Experience Officer for JumpCloud Users who believe they are paying to communicate with someone local, receive access to premium adult content instead. Porn bots generate income through a bait and switch, up-selling approach. Hackers profit through ID theft and most any scheme that uses social engineering.
People are likely to trust and click the associated links, making social bots attractive for delivering viruses, malware, and phishing attacks that collect account information. Social bots use social engineering, taking control of Facebook or Twitter user accounts and sending posts, tweets, and messages that appear to come from the user to everyone in the contact list. The intent is to get users to click on a bogus ad and attempt to make a purchase, according to Henderson, so the hacker can steal credit card data. Still other mobile bots intercept and replace Internet-based ads with malicious forgeries. “These bots can send the entire phone book, the contents of your text messages, and anything you type in,” Henderson adds. Other mobile bots quietly collect user data, sending it back to the hacker. “There’s no way to see that you’ve been sending these texts until you get your phone bill,” says Henderson. The associated messaging services end up costing the user thousands in phone bills. Mobile bots hide under the device’s operating system, sending premium text messages in secret.
“They’re designed to entice people to click on a link directing them to a malware delivery site or someplace selling counterfeit goods such as fake watches, Louie Vuitton handbags, and pharmaceuticals,” he adds. Spam bots are a sub-category of any of these other types of bots. “There’s some rudimentary intelligence in those bots,” says Henderson, ”designed to build familiarity with the user to entice them to click to another porn site, which will require them to pay for premium content.”
The chat bot determines the user’s location based on their IP address.
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Porn chat bots live on free adult websites where they pop up chat windows with pictures of attractive people saying, “I see you are from. Porn bots invade these sites, messaging offers of free adult images via links. Chat room spammers crawl the Internet looking for chat forums that use technologies such as Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and web-based chat. Porn bots include chat room spammers and bots that pop up on adult websites.