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dunrambai ago

"Fileless" malware does leave artifacts. The artifacts are just not filesystem artifacts. The popular commodity malware poster is easy enough to figure out. I'd be interested if you actually have examples/evidence of bots performing Twitter, Facebook, or reddit manipulation.

senpaithatignoresyou ago

This is where it got interesting, the first place they went was "letsnecrypt.org" where it appears to have encrypted the traffic, and that is as far as we could tell.

I have no evidence of it going to the social media sites. If i did, i would have made a post in v/infosec. I just have a theory. IF there is a better way for them to make money off of generating site traffic, i would be very open to hear that.

I have had this suspicion that twitter may be behind the bot farms in china, in an attempt to hype up how much the service is used to dupe investors. Now that the cat is out of the bag, i would bet that they would try to find a subtle way to keep this sham going.

Then again, corporate cybersecurity is a massive inside joke. I have noticed that all the big accounting firms have begun this massive push to hire IT auditors, and the insurance companies have not too. I suspect that by next year, insurance cybersecurity audits are going to become the new pain in the ass for everyone.