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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday August 07 2018, @08:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the dig-em-up dept.

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1984

A team of researchers at Duo Security has unearthed a sophisticated botnet operating on Twitter; and being used to spread a cryptocurrency scam.

The botnet was discovered during the course of a wider research project to create and publish a methodology for identifying Twitter account automat...

The team used Twitter's API and some standard data enrichment techniques to create a large data set of 88 million public Twitter accounts, comprising more than half a billion tweets. (Although they say they focused on the last 200 tweets per account for the study.)

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/06/duo-security-researchers-twitter-bot-or-not-study-unearths-crypto-botnet/


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by ikanreed on Tuesday August 07 2018, @08:21PM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 07 2018, @08:21PM (#718425) Journal

    Are they the same people that post "I'm elon musk and I'm giving away free bitcoin" scams under each Elon Musk post?

    (Sometimes they hijack unused verified accounts, rename them to Donald J. Trump and post the same scam, lol)

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