| Title | Researchers at Duo Security Unearth Large Sophisticated Twitter Crypto Botnet | |
| Date | Tuesday August 07 2018, @08:13PM | |
| Author | CoolHand | |
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| 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.)
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