Hackers Are Outsourcing Social Engineering to Bots

<p>We’ve all gotten phone calls from someone trying to talk to us about our car’s extended warranty, even if we don’t own a car. But has a robot ever called you to try to get the code your bank sends you when you log on? If it hasn’t happened, it might very soon.</p><p><br></p><p>It’s the subject of Motherboard staff writer Joseph Cox’s <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3vz5k/booming-underground-market-bots-2fa-otp-paypal-amazon-bank-apple-venmo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">new piece</a>: <em>The Booming Underground Market for Bots That Steal Your 2FA Codes</em>.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>We’re recording CYBER love on Twitch.</strong><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/motherboardtv/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> Follow us</strong></a><strong> on Twitch to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience. Yours just might end up on the show.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>Subscribe to</em></strong><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cyber/id1441708044?mt=2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong><em> CYBER on Apple Podcasts</em></strong></a><strong><em> or wherever you listen to your podcasts.</em></strong></p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>