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July 16, 2017

Porn Spam Botnet Has Evil Twitter Twin

This post was originally published on this siteLast month KrebsOnSecurity published research into a large distributed network of apparently compromised systems being used to relay huge blasts of junk email promoting “online dating” programs — affiliate-driven schemes traditionally overrun with automated accounts posing as women. New research suggests that another bot-promoting botnet of more than 80,000 automated female Twitter accounts has been pimping the same dating scheme and ginning up millions of clicks from Twitter users in the process. One of the 80,000+ Twitter bots ZeroFOX found that were enticing male Twitter users into viewing their profile pages. Not long […]