
Nearly 90,000 Sex Bots Invaded Twitter in ’One of the Largest Malicious Campaigns Ever Recorded on a Social Network’
Last week, Twitters security team purged nearly 90,000 fake accounts after outside researchers discovered a massive botnet peddling links to fake dating and romance services. The accounts had already generated more than 8.5 million posts aimed at driving users to a variety of subscription-based scam websites with promises ofyou guessed ithot internet sex.The bullshit accounts were first identified by ZeroFOX, a Baltimore-based security firm that specializes in social-media threat detection. The researchers dubbed the botnet SIREN after sea-nymphs described in Greek mythology as half-bird half-woman creatures whose sweet songs often lured horny, drunken sailors to their rocky deaths.
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