Scalper bots are designed to automatically buy a large amount of an exclusive item such as tickets, sneakers, or GPUs, often to resell them for profit.

In this episode, The Pivot host, Bradley Taylor sits down with Maltego Subject Matter Experts Mathieu Gaucheler and Threat Intelligence Analyst Liv Rowley to explore the following aspects of the scalper bot world:

  1. How scalper bots work
  2. Trends & details of the products targeted by scalper bots
  3. Pricing & plans of the bots on the market
  4. Ways the bots bypass counter-measures

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