Meet @DaoThuyHanh1, @TrangKi26074705, @NguyenN16424388, and @TrinhNg82469771, four automated Twitter accounts that were created this morning (Feb 18 2021) and are already spewing exciting questions like "Do People Actually Use Cryptocurrency?" into the universe.
cc @ZellaQuixote
cc @ZellaQuixote
These accounts are part of a botnet consisting of 34 accounts created in Feb 2021. They all follow multiple other members of the botnet (and not much else). Their follow graph is split into two separate clusters, with bots in each cluster only following others in that cluster.
The majority of this network's content thus far is tweets containing linkings to cryptocurrency news articles and blog posts. These tweets are sent via the SocialChief automation service, which we've seen before:
https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1344062911900221443
Each account also has one or two tweets sent via the Twitter Web App (in most cases, just the account's first tweet). These are mostly short phrases in English or Vietnamese, although a few are images, some of which also show up as profile pics on other accounts in the network.
Speaking of profile pics, it will likely come as no surprise to you that this botnet uses stolen profile pics. In a few cases the same pic was used as the profile pic for multiple accounts in the network.
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