Duo Security Analyzes the Working of Twitter Bots!!

[rosyantony]

The Duo Security is the renowned unified access security provider and multi-factor authentication company. Yesterday, they published the technical research and methodology of their three-month research project. This report mentioned the ways to find out the automated Twitter accounts (bots) on a mass scale.

They held a conversation at Black Hat USA on “Don’t @ Me: Hunting Twitter Bots at Scale”; after which the company released the result.

[Indamuck]

I'm assuming this is why Twitter stock dropped over 25% in price.  People didn't realize how heavily Twitter is infested with bots.  Bot programs are so advanced nowadays that most of them probably go undetected.  Most of the twitter bounty hunters are likely just tweeting to mostly bots and fake accounts that go undetected.

[Kemarit]

A case study detailing a large botnet of at least 15,000 bots spreading a cryptocurrency scam. By monitoring the botnet over time, we discover ways the bots evolve to evade detection.

Our cryptobot scam case study demonstrates that, after finding initial bots using the tools and techniques described in this paper, a thread can be followed that can result in the discovery and unraveling of an entire botnet. For this botnet, we use targeted social network analysis to reveal a unique three-tiered hierarchical structure.

https://duo.com/blog/dont-me-hunting-twitter-bots-at-scale

Damn, 15,000 bots spreading scams all over Twitter, this is just a tip of the iceberg, but I'm sure that once they bots are banned, others bots will born, much better and sophisticated and evolves that's makes it hard to identify. And this bots knows how to clone real crypto accounts that if you gullible enough, you might be persuaded by this bot and put money and before you knew, the scammers are gone taking everything along the way.

[GangNamSK]

I'm assuming this is why Twitter stock dropped over 25% in price.  People didn't realize how heavily Twitter is infested with bots.  Bot programs are so advanced nowadays that most of them probably go undetected.  Most of the twitter bounty hunters are likely just tweeting to mostly bots and fake accounts that go undetected.

I must also acknowledge one thing at twitter social networking too much information. It is regarded as the electronic market is selling. And we need to look at those sources and warn the community. Hope there is no loss there.