Mehika

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Mehika
Alias
Group
Parent
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Relations	Variants: Sibling of: Parent of: Distribution of: Campaigns:
Target	Unknown
Origin
Distribution vector
UserAgent
CCProtocol	Twitter (Centralized)
Activity	2009 /
Status	Unknown
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Operation/Working group

Introduction

• Family: Botnet PHP

Selon le blog Spamfighter, Mehika serait apparu vers septembre 2010. On cite aussi TwitterBot v1.0 et Hittler v1.0 comme alias de Mehika. Hittler v1.0 a été annoncé par son concepteur le 23 août 2009 avec les caractéristiques suivantes:

• Multiple Accounts
• Once it's done botting one account it will automatically switch to the next account.
• Multiple Key Word Searches
• Multiple Auto Post - Switches accounts and bots on them.

Publications

	Author	Editor	Year
Discerning relationships: the Mexican botnet connection	Ranieri Romera	Trend Micro	2010
Mexican Twitter-controlled botnet unpicked	John Leyden	The Register	2010
Security experts detected new Twitter-controlled botnet	Inconnu	Spamfighter	2010