A botnet flooding Twitter with links to porn - based sites was traced back to affiliates of online dating company Google , in California , according to cybersecurity firm Zerofox . The botnet , which injects links from adult content or posts into popular hashtags or @-mentions influencers or users on the social media site , abused short link services from Twitter and Google . The researchers reported that the site had over 30 million unique clicks between February and June this year .
A botnet flooding Twitter with links to porn-based sites was traced back to affiliates of online dating company Deniro Marketing in California, according to cybersecurity firm Zerofox. The botnet, which injects links from adult content Twitter profiles into popular hashtags or @-mentions influencers or users on the social media site, abused short link services from Twitter and Google. Zerofox researchers reported that the bot had generated 30 million unique clicks between February and June this year.