Mexican Twitter-controlled botnet unpicked

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Mexican Twitter-controlled botnet unpicked
Botnet	Mehika, Tequila, Mariachi, Alebrije
Malware
Botnet/malware group
Exploit kits
Services
Feature
Distribution vector
Target
Origin
Campaign
Operation/Working group
Vulnerability
CCProtocol
Date	2010 / 2010-09-15
Editor/Conference	The Register
Link	http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/15/mexican twitter botnet/ (Archive copy)
Author	John Leyden
Type

Abstract

“ Malware-infected drones in the Mehika Twitter botnet, active in Mexico this summer, take instructions from a Twitter account maintained by hackers instead of conventional command and control servers. The use of Twitter as a botnet command channel was first detected in August 2009 before similar techniques were applied to abuse Facebook profiles as command channels a few months later in November.

Bibtex

 @misc{Leyden2010BFR1213,
   editor = {The Register},
   author = {John Leyden},
   title = {Mexican Twitter-controlled botnet unpicked},
   date = {15},
   month = Sep,
   year = {2010},
   howpublished = {\url{http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/15/mexican_twitter_botnet/}},
 }