It's a Thursday, and a bevy of identical tweets in Indonesian have been tweeted via TweetDeck. We took a gander. #Spamalicious
cc: @ZellaQuixote
cc: @ZellaQuixote
The identical tweets were posted by a newly-created botnet, consisting of 10 accounts created over the span of 10 minutes on December 9th, 2020. All 10 accounts have female profile pics, and none has ever liked a tweet or followed another account.
As is often the case with spammy botnets, the profile pics are stolen, generally from stock photo sites. We found Google reverse image search effective for tracking them down (although we didn't try any other search site, as we didn't need to with this group).
Many of the tweets sent by this botnet are duplicated verbatim across multiple accounts, with the most common tweet appearing on five distinct accounts in the network. We've included Google translations, with the caveat that machine translation sometimes gets things quite wrong.
These accounts have sent all but one of their 150 tweets to date with TweetDeck. Nearly all were sent during the first second of the minute in which they were tweeted, indicating that they were most likely scheduled.
(previous thread with more detail on how we determined that TweetDeck tweets posted in the first second of a given minute are an indicator of scheduling)
https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1237193515177857026
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