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Duo Security researchers’ Twitter ‘bot or not’ study unearths crypto botnet –

Accepted submission by MrPlow at 2018-08-07 15:00:23
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MrPlow [soylentnews.org] 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…

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

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