At Black Hat: A free tool for spear phishing Twitter

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Network World Security Alert Jul 25, 2016 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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