Bot army risk as 3,000+ apps found spilling Twitter API keys
. Basically, Musk's claim was that he couldn't ascertain how many Twitter accounts were run by bots or are otherwise inauthentic.
That same API has proven a boon to developers whose jobs are made easier by the functionality, although they are also an occasional irritation to users The API is, however, not really the problem. The issue is the authentication keys given to developers for API access and how those keys are stored. And yes, according to the security house, the keys are sometimes stored in an accessible fashion within the code.
"Thus, from here bulk API keys and tokens can be harvested to prepare the Twitter bot army," said the researchers. And as for what one could do with such an army? Scenarios posited by CloudSEK included spreading misinformation, firing off malware attacks from supposedly trusted accounts, spamming and the inevitable phishing.
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