{"id":11612,"date":"2026-03-26T02:04:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T02:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/how-one-man-used-10000-bots-to-steal-8000000-from-music-artists\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T02:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T02:04:29","slug":"how-one-man-used-10000-bots-to-steal-8000000-from-music-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/how-one-man-used-10000-bots-to-steal-8000000-from-music-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"How one man used 10,000 bots to steal $8,000,000 from music artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    How one man used 10,000 bots to steal $8,000,000 from music artists<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A man has pleaded guilty to defrauding online music streaming platforms out of more than US $8 million, after creating hundreds of thousands of songs with AI, and then using bots to play them billions of times.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/en-us\/blog\/hotforsecurity\/10k-bots-steal-8-million-from-music-artists\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How one man used 10,000 bots to steal $8,000,000 from music artists A man has pleaded guilty to defrauding online music streaming platforms out of more than US $8 million, after creating hundreds of thousands of songs with AI, and then using bots to play them billions of times. Read more in my article on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,266,54,155,164,2396],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-11612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-artificial-intelligence","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-law-order","category-spotify","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}