A botnet flooding Twitter with links to porn-based sites was traced back to affiliates of online dating company Twitter and Google in Zerofox , 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 Deniro Marketing . ZeroFOX found more than 86,262 Twitter accounts were responsible for more than 8.6 million posts on Twitter promoting porn-based sites, many of them promoting domains in a swath of Internet address space owned by Deniro Marketing (ASN19884). California researchers reported that the bot had generated 30 million unique clicks this week .
A botnet flooding Twitter with links to porn-based sites was traced back to affiliates of online dating company Twitter and Google in Zerofox , 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 Deniro Marketing . California researchers reported that the bot had generated 30 million unique clicks this week .