Bot Development for Social Engineering Attacks on Twitter

A series of bots performing simulated social engineering attacks using phishing in the Twitter platform was developed to identify potentially unsafe user behavior. In this work different bot versions were developed to collect feedback data after stimuli directed to 1,287 twitter accounts for 38 consecutive days. The results were not conclusive about the existence of preceptors for unsafe behavior, but we conclude that despite Twiter's security this kind of attack is still feasible.

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