One porn campaign targeting Twitter included more than 5,000 bots and was creating more at the rate of 250 a day. Spammers can make 1,000 to 10,000 percent profit on a campaign, a security expert says. Social media is a good environment for convincing people to click on something that they shouldn’t, an analyst says. News events can cause a spike in activity in social media, a Cisco security researcher says. The Koobface worm peaked with social media attacks in 2007 to 2008, Mary Landesman says.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2133297/botnets-target-social-networks-with-spam.html