The BIG PROBLEM ⚠️ with the control of false accounts on Twitter 🐦 and how it affects us.
Channel: Syneidis
Date: 2019-02-13

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Frederic Thenault, CEO of Syneidis, presents another brief episode of cybersecurity news.

This time it's the turn of Twitter 🐦. According to a study, more than 167,000 applications were identified using the Twitter API to automate the robot. These are accounts that broadcast tens of millions of tweets that send spam, links to malware ☠️ and astroturf campaigns. According to them, more than 60 percent of the time Twitter 🐦expected those applications to send more than 💯 tweets before identifying them as abusive. Instead, the researchers were able to mark the vast majority of malicious applications after a few tweets.
 
To his credit, Twitter 🐦 has adopted at least one aggressive approach to stop some trolls 👹, a report notes that he had banned more than 4,000 disinformation accounts originating in Russia, another 3,300 from Iran and more than 750 from Venezuela. In a statement to WIRED, Twitter said it is also working to curb abusive applications, implementing new restrictions on how they are given access to the Twitter API. The company says it banned 162,000 abusive applications only in the last six months of 2018. 162,000 abusive applications: wow, people are busy being naughty and developing malicious apps!
  
Actually all these fake and spam accounts affect us even if they do not seem so. These are some of the things you can observe to determine if a Twitter 🐦 account is false or not:

1️⃣ They are an Egghead 🥚, that is, without profile picture
2️⃣ No bio
3️⃣ Excessive duplicate Tweets

Remember to be safe online and offline, and see you soon.

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