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Researchers at Duo Security Unearth Large Sophisticated Twitter Crypto Botnet

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

MrPlow writes:

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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: 2) by DavePolaschek on Wednesday August 08 2018, @01:27PM

    by DavePolaschek (6129) on Wednesday August 08 2018, @01:27PM (#718764) Homepage Journal

    They mentioned Pentametron [twitter.com] which:

    With algorithms subtle and discrete / I seek iambic writings to retweet.

    Well, there was some other stuff too.

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