A spammer was running 750.000 accounts on Twitter

O Satnam Narang της , ανακάλυψε έναν απατεώνα που κατάφερε να δημιουργήσει και να λειτουργεί μόνος του 750.000 λογαρισμούς στο .fake followers

The security researcher who discovered one man show spam managed to earn cash from advertisements and referrals to other websites.
Narang said he was the only scammer to impersonate news agencies and celebrities over the past year, promoting a fake weight loss product.

"One of the most interesting aspects of this spam operation is the techniques of maintaining and retrieving accounts in order to avoid Anti-Spam measures," Narang said in his research: Uncovering persistent dietary spam operation on ΤWitter (pdf).

"Since the beginning of 2014, an individual has been running a huge spam operation on Twitter for over a year using about 750.000 fake accounts on Twitter. Twitter. "

Narang did not name the scammer, but said he had registered some accounts under his real name and through them, using a well-known Twitter bot, made the retweets.

This scam consists of three types of accounts that mimic large commercials the. They used stolen tweets and avatars, and were full of fake followers – or mockingbirds, parrots and eggs in Symantec's terminology.twitter spammer

Μεγάλα μέσα ς όπως το TMZ, το MTV, το Yahoo! και το Beeb ήταν μερικοί από τους Mockingbird λογαριασμούς, ενώ παράλληλα υπήρχαν δεκάδες διασημότητες και τυχαίες φωτογραφίες με ελκυστικές γυναίκες σε λογαριασμούς παπαγάλων (parrots) σε μια προσπάθεια απόκτησης πραγματικών followers από τον απατεώνα. Όπως επισημαίνει η Symantec το φαινόμενο λογαριασμών spam που χρησιμοποιούν φωτογραφιές ελκυστικών γυναικών είναι πολύ παλιό αλλά δυστυχώς λειτουργεί ακόμα.

 

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