7 Unusual Behaviors That Indicate Security Breaches
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104,338 tweets from 1 day from 1 IP address. In this instance, a bot was exfiltrating data from a bank 140 characters at a time.
One bank was taken aback by the discovery of malware sending out sensitive information through Twitter - 140 characters at a time. The account was created as a window to send tweets to a machine that presumably stitched the information together. To anyone following the account, it would have looked like gibberish.
In this instance no employees were out of line, and the malware was responding to outside forces.
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