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Nearly 90,000 Sex Bots Invaded Twitter In ‘One Of The Largest Malicious Campaigns Ever Recorded On A Social Network’
Last week, Twitter’s security team purged nearly 90,000 fake accounts after outside researchers discovered a massive botnet peddling links to fake “dating” and “romance” services. The accounts had already generated more than 8.5 million posts aimed at driving users to a variety of subscription-based scam websites with promises of — you guessed it — hot…