Ticketmaster Blames Bots in Taylor Swift 'Eras' Tour Debacle

Ticketmaster testified in the Senate that a cyberattack was to blame for the high-profile Taylor Swift concert sales collapse, but some senators aren't so sure. [TechWeb]( Follow Dark Reading: [RSS]( January 25, 2023 LATEST SECURITY NEWS & COMMENTARY [Ticketmaster Blames Bots in Taylor Swift 'Eras' Tour Debacle]( Ticketmaster testified in the Senate that a cyberattack was to blame for the high-profile Taylor Swift concert sales collapse, but some senators aren't so sure. ['DragonSpark' Malware: East Asian Cyberattackers Create an OSS Frankenstein]( Hackers cleverly cobbled together a suite of open source software — including a novel RAT — and hijacked servers owned by ordinary businesses. [Microsoft to Block Excel Add-ins to Stop Office Exploits]( The company will block the configuration files, which interact with Web applications — since threat actors increasingly use the capability to install malicious code. 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