Name: Bot’s the Story, Morning Glory? Uncovering Oasis Ticket Scalper Bots
Start: 2024-09-17T15:10:00Z
End: 2024-09-17T15:10:38.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Netacea bot protection helps enteprise brands detect and mitigate the most sophisticated bot attacks. 
Get better detection of bot attacks across all your websites, apps and APIs, without agents. Netacea uses edge-computed behavioural analysis to give you the ultimate in protection through a single, lightweight integration that's invisible to attackers.

Every day, media outlets are under siege by automated bots stealing valuable content. These bots fuel GenAI, siphon ad revenue, and drive up your infrastructure costs, all while evading traditional defenses. The result? Legal headaches and lost revenue.

In the fast-evolving world of online media, leading companies like Conde Nast and Fortune are turning potential threats into revenue streams by partnering with GenAI firms and web crawlers. But how do you control who accesses your content accurately and fairly?

Don’t miss this exclusive webinar where Netacea’s top experts will unravel the grey areas between beneficial web scraping and harmful content theft. Discover actionable strategies from threat research to cutting-edge data science that can protect your content and boost your bottom line.

You’ll learn:
• The hidden costs of automated content theft—and how to stop the bleeding.
• How targeted bot management outperforms blanket bans for better protection and profitability.
• How advanced data science lets Netacea detect and neutralize scraper bots in real time.
• How to turn scraper traffic into a profitable revenue stream with smart monetization strategies.

Register now to secure your spot and take the first step toward protecting your content and increasing your revenue.

Protect Your Content: Combat Scraping and Maximize Revenue

This webinar introduces Netacea Threat Intel Feeds—a tool to harden your defenses against automated attacks using real-world threat data.

Join James Middleton, Andy Still, and Cyril Noel-Tagoe as they explore how Netacea processes trillions of requests daily, enabling Threat Intel Feeds to identify and stop attack traffic in real-time, so you can squeeze more value out of your existing edge defenses.

Learn how the tool aligns with the BLADE Framework and Netacea’s multi-layered bot defense strategy, and discover use cases demonstrating the effectiveness of Threat Intel Feeds.

Introducing Netacea Threat Intel Feeds

Streaming subscription revenues are set to exceed $108 billion in 2024, and fraudsters want a piece of the action. Criminals list hundreds of thousands of accounts at almost a quarter of their retail price each month, costing streaming services millions annually.

Automated bots make stealing, generating and selling accounts simple for criminals.

Join Netacea on this webinar to see:
- Original research into the breadth of streaming account theft
- A live demonstration of how bots steal user accounts with ease
- The damage account takeover and creation causes streaming businesses and their customers
- What streaming businesses can do to protect accounts from bot attacks

Dissecting the Bots Threatening Streaming Services

With the surge in interest for AI comes warnings from industry leaders about adversaries exploiting AI to outpace traditional defenses. Netacea have teamed up with Forrester to discuss it in depth and share key insights with you.

In this webinar, learn about:
- The current state of AI in cybersecurity.
- The potential of AI in cybersecurity.
- Offensive AI implications for automated attacks on websites, apps, and APIs.
- The effectiveness of defensive AI strategies in threat detection and mitigation.

Speakers

Andy Still – CTO & Co-founder, Netacea
Andy is a pioneer of digital performance for online systems, having authored several books on computing and web performance, application development and non-human web traffic. 

Sandy Carielli – Principal Analyst, Forrester
Sandy is a principal analyst at Forrester advising security and risk professionals on application and product security, with over 15 years of experience in the security industry.

Cyril Noel-Tagoe – Principal Security Researcher, Netacea
Cyril is an experienced information security professional and Principal Security Researcher at Netacea. He spends his time researching, speaking and writing about malicious bots and other cyber security topics.

Bot Management in the Age of Offensive AI

The explosive impact of ransomware and GDPR fines grab attention in boardrooms and in the press, but the corrosive damage of automated attacks is just as ruinous. Bad bots are to blame, striking businesses in their billions daily.

Now in its third year, Netacea’s study continues to shed light on the financial impact of bots. Independent research firm Coleman Parkes surveyed 440 US & UK businesses with an average online revenue of $1.9bn across the travel, entertainment, ecommerce, financial services and telecoms sectors.

This year’s study brings shocking findings into focus:

$85.6m (or 4.3% of online revenue) was lost by each business, on average, to bot attacks last year – more than twice the previous figure.
Four months is the average time taken to detect bot attacks.
72% of businesses detected attacks from China, and 66% from Russia (an 82% increase over the previous two years).
40% of enterprises are attacked via their APIs – and for the first time, bots are targeting mobile apps more than websites.
On this webinar, you’ll hear expert analysis of these findings from Netacea Principal Security Researcher Cyril Noel-Tagoe, industry insights from Tom Parker, Cyber Security Manager at BT, and academic viewpoints from Rob Black, Lecturer in Information Activities at Cranfield University.

Death By A Billion Bots - The Accumulating Cost of Malicious Automation

Bots running rife on the internet is nothing new, but if recent incidents like widespread PS5 scalping or credential stuffing of major brands’ websites are anything to go by, bot attacks have become a major disruptor to businesses.

Businesses have long fought back to detect and block such attacks, yet bot operators quickly adapt to ensure they continually evade detection. How do bot operators win against their victims so frequently? And how do bots routinely beat defenses developed to stop them?

In this webinar, Netacea Principal Security Researcher Cyril Noel-Tagoe breaks down the bot attack lifecycle, showing how bot attacks slip under the radar of many popular anti-bot technologies using tactics such as proxying to residential IPs, CAPTCHA farms, and de-obfuscation of code used by bot detection tools.

How Bots Win: Bot Defense Bypass Techniques

Unlock the Power of BLADE Framework®: A Webinar Exploring Bot Attack Mitigation

Just as security professionals rely on MITRE ATT&CK to navigate technical vulnerabilities, the BLADE Framework® emerges as a pivotal educational asset in the relentless battle against bot assaults, encompassing threats like credential stuffing, scraping, and scalping.

Developed by Netacea's threat research team with input from Adidas and OVO Energy, BLADE offers insights into malicious bot tactics.

In this 20-minute webinar, Cyril Noel-Tagoe, a core contributor, explains how BLADE categorizes and stops bot attacks. Netacea's expert demonstrates BLADE's real-world benefits.

Part 2 covers:

Scalper bot attack data analysis
How Netacea protects clients using BLADE
Speakers:

Cyril Noel-Tagoe: Principal Security Researcher at Netacea, Cyril advises financial services on cybersecurity.

Paulina Cakalli: Lead Data Analyst at Netacea, Paulina develops traffic detection models and encourages women in STEM.

The BLADE Framework: The MITRE ATT&CK-style Framework for Bot Attacks [Part 2]

Just as security professionals rely on MITRE ATT&CK to help them understand technical vulnerabilities, the BLADE Framework® is a vital learning tool in the battle against bot attacks like credential stuffing, scraping and scalping.

The BLADE Framework is an open-source educational resource describing a wide range of malicious bot tactics and techniques, developed by the Netacea threat research team with contributions from experts at organizations including Adidas and OVO Energy.

If you’re not already using BLADE, this webinar offers the chance to hear from a core contributor to the project. Cyril Noel-Tagoe explains how businesses can use BLADE to categorize and shut down bot attacks, whilst one of Netacea’s bot experts uses real data to demonstrate how our clients benefit from using the framework to understand bot threats they face daily.

Covered in part one:
- An introduction to the BLADE Framework; a MITRE ATT&CK-style framework for bots
- How to apply the BLADE Framework to a simulated credential stuffing attack, executed in real time

Speakers:

Cyril Noel-Tagoe (Principal Security Researcher at Netacea) is an experienced information security professional. He spends his time researching, speaking and writing about malicious bots and other cyber security topics. He comes from a consulting background, having advised financial services organizations on a range of technical and non-technical cyber security domains in a previous life.

Paulina Cakalli (Lead Data Analyst at Netacea) works closely with Netacea’s data science and threat research teams to develop new models for detecting anomalous web traffic, combining this with machine learning to produce recommendations for clients. She is a rising star in the world of data science, encouraging other women to enter STEM careers via various speaking opportunities internationally. Paulina co-founded BSides Tirana, an international security conference.

The BLADE Framework: The MITRE ATT&CK-style Framework for Bot Attacks [Part 1]

We've all experienced it – that must-have ticket or item is due to be released, causing thousands to rush online to be at the product drop. This sudden influx of traffic overwhelms and breaks eCommerce infrastructures, damaging profits and frustrating fans.

On top of this, valuable items of any kind inevitably attract bots – automated to check out faster than any human, then resell the items at a marked-up price. With huge profits to be made, bots will stop at nothing to flood web stores and snatch inventory ahead of people.

By combining a virtual waiting room from Queue-it with advanced bot protection from Netacea, you can keep bad bots clear of hype drops and free up your infrastructure for real fans. Your web stores stay online, and genuine customers can buy at fair prices, without interruption.

In this webinar, you will hear how Queue-it and Netacea:
- Safeguard sites during sudden traffic spikes to ensure smooth sales
- Eliminate bad bots before they snatch inventory for resale
- Integrate closely to deliver smooth, bot-free product drops

Speakers

Thomas Platt – VP Pre-Sales, Netacea
Netacea protects some of the busiest sites in the world from malicious automated traffic. Tom has been instrumental in the sales growth of Netacea since its inception, driving industry research, thought leadership and knowledge sharing. Tom’s focus is to ensure Netacea and its customers stay ahead of emerging bot threats and share this knowledge with the wider community.

Jose Quaresma – VP Technical Engagement, Queue-it
Jose is the Vice President of Technical Engagement at Queue-it, the leading virtual waiting room solution. At Queue-it, Jose's Technical Engagement team focuses on ensuring that customers get the solution that best fits their needs, have a successful start with the company, and continuously get the most value from the solution. He is passionate about leveraging technology to solve complex problems.

How To Handle Peak Traffic Spikes and Mitigate Bot Attacks

2023 has cast the spotlight on scalper bots, which set fans into a frenzy of frustration when they put access to their favourite stars of music and sports out of reach.

As the threat posed by scalper bots continues to grow, this is an ideal webinar for those looking to understand more about those behind the bots and the ethical grey area that surrounds use of scalper bots.

Our panel of experts share their thoughts on the scalper bot threat and the significance of lawmakers becoming involved as they try to find a solution.

Bot Legislation & the Ethical Grey Area

Netacea bot experts discuss the challenges around the Oasis reunion tour ticket sales, focusing on the issues caused by bots and scalping in high-demand events. The discussion explores the technical difficulties of managing ticket sales, the tactics used by bot operators to secure tickets, and the broader implications for the industry.

The team also discuss why current methods to prevent bot activity often fail and why a multi-pronged strategy combining real-time detection, post-transaction analysis, and clamping down on secondary markets is critical.

The talk concludes with insights on how increased intelligence and understanding of attacker behavior can eventually win the battle against bot-driven ticket scalping.

Bot’s the Story, Morning Glory? Uncovering Oasis Ticket Scalper Bots

Bots

Botnets

Scalper Bots

Ticketing

Fraud

Fraud Prevention

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