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26 Jul, 6 tweets, 5 min read
It's a Monday afternoon, which is the perfect time to look at a pornbot network with a penchant attaching random emoji to its repetitive tweets. Also, it spam-followed a rather odd lineup of accounts. #MondayMotivation #Spamtastic

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This network consists of (at least) 27745 Japanese-language accounts, created in batches between June 1st and July 25th, 2010. All tweets posted by these accounts so far were (allegedly) sent via the Twitter Web App. None has ever liked a tweet. ImageImageImageImage
The accounts in this network are extremely repetitive, with the same tweets frequently duplicated verbatim (other than emoji) by dozens of accounts. The accounts' biographies generally include an invitation to chat with unknown parties on the LINE messaging app. ImageImage
We've seen botnets that attempt to invite people to chat on the LINE app before:
This botnet reuses profile pics across accounts (4697 unique images for 27745 accounts), with the most common image appearing on 97 different accounts. The images are, unsurprisingly, stolen. ImageImage
In addition to tweeting repetitive porn spam, this network also followed four accounts en masse: former Belarusian presidential candidate @viktar_babaryka (presently imprisoned), Lithuanian politician @GLandsbergis, @gypsynkov, and @neural_machine (mostly AI-generated tweets). Image

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25 Jul
The accounts in the original "requesting faucet funds" botnet have all been suspended, but a fresh batch has arisen to take their place, and they've evolved (slightly). #SaturdaySpam

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19 Jul
Meet @El6YUlRJVNEFutr (permanent ID 1412134274762002436). Despite having been created just two weeks ago and having almost no content, it has somehow accumulated a large following consisting almost entirely of accounts that are at least seven years old.

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18 Jul
Rather ironically given its stated interest in "healthy conversations online" and "thriving engaged communities", @OpenWebHQ got many of its early followers from a duo of fake follower botnets. We've seen one of these botnets before; here's a look at the other.

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12 Jul
Meet @aykacmis, @degismece, @anlamislar, @aykacti, @kayitlii, and @donmedim, a sextet of blue-check verified Twitter accounts created on June 16th, 2021. None has yet tweeted and all have roughly 1000 followers (and mostly the *same* followers).

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Two of these six accounts (@kayitlii and @aykacti) have photographs of people as their profile pics. Despite the presence of the blue verification checkmark, neither image is likely to depict the account holder as both images appear to be stolen.
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It's #Caturday, so here's a freshly-made botnet tweeting cat videos because of course that's a thing.

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8 Jul
It's a day ending in "y", and a swarm of accounts with GAN-generated face pics is spamming utter nonsense. #YouWontSeeThesePhrasesOnWheelOfFortune #DictionaryShenaniGANs

(GAN = "generative adversarial network", the AI technique used by thispersondoesnotexist.com)

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