Mexican Twitter-controlled botnet unpicked
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Mexican Twitter-controlled botnet unpicked | |
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Botnet | Mehika, Tequila, Mariachi, Alebrije |
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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 |
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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{Lua error: Cannot create process: proc_open(/dev/null): failed to open stream: Operation not permitted2010BFR1213, 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/}}, }