Security News > 2023 > July > Twitter's bot spam keeps getting worse — it's about porn this time
Forget crypto spam accounts, Twitter's got another problem which involves bots and accounts promoting adult content and infiltrating Direct Messages and interactions on the platform.
In a tweet, security research group, MalwareHunterTeam exposed multiple Twitter accounts that are spam bots injecting themselves within interactions in the form of likes.
Although Twitter has been suspending bot accounts as these spring up, the platform has still not enforced any effective or novel solution to contain spam and bots, making it akin to a whack-a-mole situation.
"If our Twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying!" Musk had declared last year amid discussions surrounding the platform's acquisition.
On multiple occasions, threat actors have abused Twitter Blue-verified accounts to push crypto scams, thereby defeating the very purpose of verification.
Without implementing a streamlined process for keeping fake accounts and bots at bay, Twitter's existing spam problems are here to stay.