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Title: vast sophisticated Twitter bot accounts promoting crypto fraud discovered
Post by: Jamesp2k on August 07, 2018, 11:39:57 PM
Two security researchers at Duo Security who were studying Twitter automation patterns, stumbled upon a vast network of Twitter bot accounts promoting crypto fraud. The sophisticated network was accidentally discovered while the researchers were looking into how to create a methodology for accurately identifying Twitter bot.

https://btcmanager.com/security-researchers-discover-sophisticated-twitter-crypto-botnet/

I see free Ethereum give away most time I am on twitter even from prominent figures. I kept wondering why people could fall for such scam. Are these people dumb? Hope I am speaking the mind of a lot here


Title: Re: vast sophisticated Twitter bot accounts promoting crypto fraud discovered
Post by: bitfocus on August 16, 2018, 07:24:02 AM
yes, according to the article, its nearly 2000 bots.