Twitter Bots Target Tibetan Protests
Summary: Twitter bots are flooding hashtags such as #tibet and #freetibet with junk tweets, making the tags useless for tracking protests against Chinese rule, according to Tibetan sympathizers cited by KrebsOnSecurity. Security blogger Denis Sinegubko said the accounts show the hallmarks of spam bots, and Twitter has been notified about a couple of dozen accounts that appear to be the source of most of the messages.
Bottom line: The same automated flooding technique used against Russian election protesters was turned on Tibetan hashtags, and the article notes a backdoor Trojan targeting Mac users via a Java vulnerability was seen in email attacks against Tibet-related NGOs.
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