New Open Source Tools Help Find Large Twitter Botnets

guest · Aug 6, 2018

New Open Source Tools Help Find Large Twitter Botnets
August 06, 2018
https://www.securityweek.com/new-open-source-tools-help-find-large-twitter-botnets

Duo Security has created open source tools and disclosed techniques that can be useful in identifying automated Twitter accounts, which are often used for malicious purposes.

Researchers created their tools and techniques for identifying bots based on 20 unique account characteristics, including the number of digits in a screen name, followers/following ratio, number of tweets and likes relative to the account’s age, number of users mentioned in a tweet, number of tweets with the same content, percentage of tweets with URLs, time between tweets, and average hours tweeted per day.

Duo Security has published a 46-page research paper describing its findings and techniques. The company will release its tools as open source on August 8 at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
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research paper (PDF): https://duo.com/assets/pdf/Duo-Labs-Dont-At-Me-Twitter-Bots.pdf

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