Russian Bots Targeting Journalists Putin Tweets

By NCD on Tue, 09/05/2017 - 1:10pm |

Daily Beast cybersecurity reporter Joseph Cox was suspended by Twitter after the account was the beneficiary of hundreds of bot followers...after my Daily Beast story about suspicious activity by pro-Kremlin bots went live, my own account came under attack,” Cox wrote.

Let that sink in for a moment: A huge collection of botted accounts — the vast majority of which should be easily detectable as such — may be able to abuse Twitter’s anti-abuse tools to temporarily shutter the accounts of real people suspected of being bots!

URL:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/08/twitter-bots-use-likes-rts-for-intimidation/