Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a huge botnet of zombie Twitter accounts sitting on the social network, but amazingly Twitter hasn’t noticed or got rid of it. Researchers from social media fraud investigations team Sadbottrue have found a botnet containing three million Twitter accounts, together with two other botnets each containing 100,000 bots that are likely being used by online services that offer to rent or sell Twitter followers to businesses, celebrities or individuals that want more followers.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: International Business Times