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March 16, 2018 09:30 pm GMT
Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/yHOiMyE9Th0/
Suspicious likes lead to researcher lighting up a 22,000-strong botnet on Twitter
Botnets are fascinating to me. Who creates them? What are they for? And why doesn't someone delete them? The answers are probably less interesting than I hope, but in the meantime I like to cheer when large populations of bots are exposed. That's what security outfit F-Secure's Andy Patel did this week after having his curiosity piqued by a handful of strange likes on Twitter.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/yHOiMyE9Th0/
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