The chatter around streaming bots grew noticeably louder in August 2025, when a prison phone call between Young Thug and an unidentified associate leaked online. During the conversation, the Young ...

Federal authorities hit a North Carolina man with charges arising from allegations that he fraudulently earned streaming royalties through a scheme involving bots and AI-generated songs. The man, ...

Unveiling the AI music scandal: Discover how an artist used artificial intelligence and bots to manipulate streaming numbers and commit fraud in the music industry. An artificial intelligence (AI) ...

A federal lawsuit filed Sunday in California federal court accuses Spotify of failing to prevent streaming fraud, including by allowing “billions” of bot-generated streams that allegedly boosted ...

A new class action lawsuit against Spotify alleges the company has "turned a blind eye" to "mass-scale fraudulent streaming" on its platform and that one musician in particular has been the ...

Discussion abounds about how attackers could potentially use artificial intelligence (AI) to craft their attacks. The latest research from Human Security's Satori Threat Intelligence team shows how ...