Colleagues, yesterday Duo
Security
reported that some 88 million Twitter accounts fell prey to a malicious botnet
spreading a fraudulent cryptocurrency giveaway program. Many of us, myself
included, saw messages from this botnet and simply paid no attention.
Nonetheless, the security issued a paper at the Black Hat 2018 conference entitled “Don’t @ Me – Hunting Twitter Bots at
Scale.”
The paper describes the “Anatomy of a Twitter Bot” on page 14 of the report. We
know that Facebook and Twitter have purportedly taken major steps to reinforce
their platform and account security in recent months given pressure from the US
Congress and the European Union. Bottom line: How secure are social media
platforms against penetration by and in turn spreading malware such as the
Twitter botnet? The fact that the about 88 million accounts we effected
strongly suggests that social media take a quantum leap in security to ensure
their users remain secure. As of this writing Twitter has not publically
affirmed this attack. Duo Security plans to publish mitigation tactics for this
malware on GitHub in the coming days. Share your comments
today! Lawrence – Cryptocurrency
Academy (https://cryptocurrencyacademy.blogspot.com/)
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