Porn Spam Botnet Has Evil Twitter Twin
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 12:11:35 +0000
Last 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.
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