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Twitter Used To Control Botnet Machines

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the it's-all-spam-to-me dept.

DikSeaCup writes "Arbor Network's Jose Nazario, an expert on botnets, discovered what looks to be the first reported case of hackers using Twitter to control botnets. 'Hackers have long used IRC chat rooms to control botnets, and have continually used clever technologies, such as peer-to-peer strategies, to counter efforts to track, disrupt and sometimes decapitate the bots. Perhaps what's surprising then is that it's taken so long for hackers to take Twitter to the dark side.' The next step, of course, is to code the tweets in such a way that they aren't so suspicious."

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  1. Holy shit! by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who knew Twitter had a use?!?!

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  2. Reliable by Marillion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Twitter isn't as reliable as IRC.

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  3. It's easy to do. by lymond01 · · Score: 5, Funny

    No onE would Think of uSing slashdoT As we aRen'T nearly as oBviOus as someThiNg likE Twitter. // Especially with all our talk about supporting Linux and such.

    1. Re:It's easy to do. by Pulse_Instance · · Score: 5, Funny

      We use linux to read slashdot so your net start does nothing to us.