Article 29N8Z 350,000 Twitter bot sleeper cell betrayed by love of Star Wars and Windows Phone

350,000 Twitter bot sleeper cell betrayed by love of Star Wars and Windows Phone

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Story ImageComputer researchers uncover yuuuge dormant army

Computer boffins Juan Echeverria and Shi Zhou at University College London have chanced across a dormant Twitter botnet made up of more than 350,000 accounts with a fondness for quoting Star Wars novels."

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