BrianKrebs on Nostr: Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct ...

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. I recently tracked down and interviewed a Russian hacker responsible for a series of particularly aggressive crypto spam campaigns this month that prompted several large #Mastodon communities to temporarily halt new registrations. According to the hacker, their spam software has been in private use until the last few weeks, when it was released as open source code.

A big thank you to npub1cx7gljur9tl4zss45ekcm0xuw20v4xxx0337695dq5xr468wpeasc28tc2 (npub1cx7…8tc2) for help with this research.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/05/interview-with-a-crypto-scam-investment-spammer/