At Black Hat: A free tool for spear phishing Twitter

A spear phishing tool to automate the creation of phony tweets – complete with malicious URLs – with messages victims are likely to click on will be released at Black Hat by researchers from ZeroFOX.

Called SNAP_R (for social network automated phisher with reconnaissance), the tool runs through a target Twitter account to gather data on what topics seem to interest the subscriber. Then it writes a tweet loaded up with a link to a site containing malware and sends it.

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Network World Tim Greene