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Bladewire · 07-17-2017, 06:18 PM

Deniro Marketing is that Friendfinder?

https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/17/...illion-clicks/

For the past few months ZeroFOX, a social media-focused digital security company, has been looking into a massive pornography botnet targeting Twitter. Dubbed SIREN, after the mythical Greek creatures said to lure sailors to their deaths with song, the botnet campaign reportedly included around 90,000 accounts that produced over 8.5 million tweets.

Each of the associated accounts had a pretty typical set up. Their profiles featured a photo of a woman and a female display name and tweets from these accounts nearly always included a sexually explicit phrase, followed by an exclamation point and an additional phrase meant to get targets to click the shortened URL at the end of the tweet. Once a user clicked on the link, they would be taken through a series of redirects before finally landing on a website that encouraged them to sign up for subscription pornography, webcam sites or fake dating webpages. SIREN accounts were able to attract over 30 million clicks.

ZeroFOX suggests that those behind the SIREN accounts were likely located in Eastern Europe due to many of the accounts' user languages being set to Russian and a chunk of the display names containing cyrillic letters. It also noted that the tweets' phrasing was often written in poor English. Some examples include "I want to fondle me?" and "Boys like you, my figure?" which sound a lot like the silly pickup lines produced by neural networks, but dirtier.

Last week, ZeroFOX reportedly submitted all of the SIREN Twitter profiles and URLs to Twitter, which then removed the accounts from the site and blacklisted the URL domains. "To our knowledge, the botnet is one of the largest malicious campaigns ever recorded on a social network," ZeroFOX said in a blog post. Twitter hasn't yet responded to a request for comment.

Barry-xlovecam · 07-17-2017, 06:28 PM

'Deniro Marketing' was not listed on FFN's US Bankruptcy filing -- I know this for fact because I read it along with their financial statement filed with the court -- that was a some years ago however ...

Bladewire · 07-17-2017, 06:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam

'Deniro Marketing' was not listed on FFN's US Bankruptcy filing -- I know this for fact because I read it along with their financial statement filed with the court -- that was a some years ago however ...

Krebs on Security tracked it back to Deniro Marketing FriendFinders, unless I read something wrong?

Porn Spam Botnet Has Evil Twitter Twin

Barry-xlovecam · 07-17-2017, 06:47 PM

That name was not on the Bankruptcy filing.
Friend[...], AFF nor FFN is NOT mentioned on that Krebs article

AshleyMadison was, but;

Quote:

Perhaps the most well-known example of the subscription-based dating/cheating service that turned out to be mostly phony was AshleyMadison. After AshleyMadison’s user databases were plundered and published online, the company admitted that its service used at least 70,000 female chatbots that were programmed to message new users and try to entice them into replying — which required a paid account.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/07/...-twitter-twin/
https://www.deniromarketing.com/
I read this today -- the world is adapting to chatbots and AI in mainstream.
Will customer service chatbots replace contact-center agents?

NALEM · 07-17-2017, 06:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bladewire

Krebs on Security tracked it back to Deniro Marketing FriendFinders, unless I read something wrong?

Porn Spam Botnet Has Evil Twitter Twin

Deniro Marketing is Dating Gold (AmateurMatch, WebCamClub et al.)

Bladewire · 07-17-2017, 07:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam

That name was not on the Bankruptcy filing.
Friend[...], AFF nor FFN is NOT mentioned on that Krebs article

AshleyMadison was, but;

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/07/...-twitter-twin/
https://www.deniromarketing.com/
I read this today -- the world is adapting to chatbots and AI in mainstream.
Will customer service chatbots replace contact-center agents?

You're right. I have no idea how I associated FriendFinder with this so strange.

This court case against Deniro Marketing is revealing (PDF) quite an impressive operation they've got there

bns666 · 07-17-2017, 11:18 PM

oh so surprising

Smut-Talk · 07-18-2017, 02:43 AM

Bladewire, Barry-xlovecam nice too see you're reading Krebs his awesome blog.
I think it is a must to read up every week.

Is there any 'honest' dating network?

I think there are some, prob those few that do offline meetings too.
But never promoted any myself.

I do remember that article on KoS that there where like millions of male accounts, and just under 10.000 real female accounts...
That says it all.

More change to meet a girl in the supermarket...

PS Bladewire i would like to talk, any other way than skype..
Maybe you can send me a mail?

Smut-Talk · 07-18-2017, 02:48 AM

to ad to this,

in The Netherlands there was once a social media platform called Hyves, biggest ever.
They sold out, quit, and guess...
SOLD all customers to a dating network behind a service called netlog. (now merged with twoo)

Unbelievable that they can do so...

Still thinking about going to their office in Belgium and check if they have wifi...

CaptainHowdy · 07-18-2017, 02:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Smut-Talk

Is there any 'honest' dating network?

I would say: is there anything at all honest about dating itself?

Smut-Talk · 07-18-2017, 02:55 AM

sure it isnt Captain obvious?

But seriously, you do have a valid point.
But that is a bit offtopic...

CaptainHowdy · 07-18-2017, 03:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Smut-Talk

sure it isnt Captain obvious?

But seriously, you do have a valid point.
But that is a bit offtopic...

Mine is a more philosophical "nature". I apologize.

Smut-Talk · 07-18-2017, 03:13 AM

no need for that Captain!

i kind of asked for such a reaction...

and you did make a very valid point.

And i feel much better after this laugh, after getting worked up about the bastards from Twoo!

NewNick · 07-18-2017, 04:00 AM

Friendfinder is one of the better companies in terms of fake females.

tobe87 · 07-18-2017, 10:19 AM

Deniro Marketing is not associated with FFN properties. Two completely separate companies.

The Porn Nerd · 07-18-2017, 11:34 AM

So THIS is why I can't get a date!

Mad.

hdbuilder · 07-18-2017, 02:14 PM

Shit I got caught

RyuLion · 07-18-2017, 02:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CaptainHowdy

I would say: is there anything at all honest about dating itself?

/thread

TheDynasty · 07-18-2017, 03:24 PM

not suprised

AmeliaG · 07-18-2017, 04:55 PM

What is malicious about promoting FFN on Twitter?

Bladewire · 07-19-2017, 12:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd

So THIS is why I can't get a date!

Mad.

They're all fakes! 😲😂🤣

nico-t · 07-19-2017, 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NALEM

Deniro Marketing is Dating Gold (AmateurMatch, WebCamClub et al.)

correct.

Sarn · 07-19-2017, 03:49 PM

>Porn Spam Botnet Has Evil Twitter Twin
They are like Hitler
Start crying

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