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It's the last day of 2019, and an ISIS botnet is piggybacking on New Year's trends to promote propaganda.
cc: @ZellaQuixotepic.twitter.com/i1GheyeQ2m
We found 10 accounts (there may be more), all of which woke up over the last four days and began spamming videos. The accounts themselves have been around for years (and some have older tweets), so it's not unlikely that these are purchased or hacked accounts repurposed as bots.pic.twitter.com/6shzrpLdvr
Although these bots are incredibly repetitive, they don't repeat tweets verbatim (possibly to make detection more difficult.) The tweets seem to be assembled from a set of repeated phrases, with a variety of accent marks being added to the English text (i.e., Happy Nْew Yْear.)pic.twitter.com/vakPjWywF5
Update - the majority of yesterday's crop of these bots have been suspended, but a new batch of (at least) 14 is active this morning. Once again, they're all long-dormant accounts that suddenly activated.pic.twitter.com/Cy1esQJj70
One interesting detail - clicking the "from moya caeser" link leads to an apparently empty account (@moyaurbanbetty.) This is because the original videos are posted as ads rather than tweets and thus don't show on the original account's timeline, obfuscating the video's origin.pic.twitter.com/eBEHgvpz1L
not at all a good sign for the New Year
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