90,000 Fake Accounts Promising Online Sex Suspended By Twitter - Nirmal Singh 3C Company



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There was a botnet campaign going on twitter to which the micro-blogging site was alerted by a digital security company. The campaign was built around online sex and more than 90,000 accounts were heavily involved in the campaign. 

The campaign, ‘SIREN’, was brought to light by a digital security company known as ZeroFOX – the firm specializes in detecting social media threats. 

‘This botnet campaign can be easily termed as one of the largest and the most malicious campaigns ever recorded on any given social networking website. And it is good that SIREN got detected before things went haywire.’ - Nirmal Singh 3C Company

ZeroFOX was keeping tabs on SIREN for a couple of months through its computer vision and its highly advanced language processing algorithm. More than 8,500,000 tweets were recorded from over 90,000 twitter accounts with suggestive display pictures of women promising online sex. The issue has been going on for a while on twitter due to which the personal information of millions was hacked. 

The campaign has been tremendously successful with over 30 million clicks from unique twitter users. But as the data was made up with easily trackable shortened Google URLs, it was easier to create a path for the links.

The Baltimore-based digital security company reported its findings to both Google and Twitter to which they reacted promptly by successfully removing the tweets, links and suspending over 90,000 accounts. - Nirmal Singh 3C Company

Each of the accounts that got suspended last week either contacted the users directly through DMs or had their account details and rates pinned in their bio section. There was heavy traffic on the links these accounts were posting which made things even worse for the authorities.

As soon as someone clicked the link[s], they were redirected to a couple of similar websites from which they were allowed to choose. The final redirect encouraged the users to fill in their personal details, subscribe to the website for better, free content. The links also redirected the users to fake dating and pornographic websites. 

‘These websites are legal, yes, but that doesn’t mean they don’t fall deep under the category of malicious spam. You cannot, under any circumstance, fill in your personal details on these websites. The policies of these websites even claim that the owners of the websites use the accounts/profile. - Nirmal Singh 3C Company
Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India

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