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F5 Labs

Fake Account Creation Bots – Part 1

2023-09-08 · Read original ↗

ATT&CK techniques detected

10 predictions
T1585.001Social Media Accounts
97%
"and not using automation, though at times automation can be used. kids avoiding parents on social media teenagers typically do not want their parents to know what they do online especially on social media. to avoid parental oversight, they will typically have a normal profile wit…"
T1585.001Social Media Accounts
97%
"at high velocity between the two accounts. the system had a vulnerability that at very high speeds it would add the next $ 1 before it deducted the last one and essentially create money that didn ' t exist before in both accounts. this is an example of the sorts of vulnerabilitie…"
T1585.001Social Media Accounts
96%
"personal profile online. ” 3 users will create catfishing accounts for a number of different reasons including the parent monitoring noted above. on online dating platforms these accounts can be created by fraudsters as covered in the malicious fake accounts section, or they can …"
T1585.001Social Media Accounts
92%
"fake accounts can be powerful tools, especially in online ecosystems where accounts are intended to serve as proxy identities of real users. why create fake accounts? let us turn our attention to motivation. why would anyone want to create fake accounts? there are numerous reason…"
T1585.001Social Media Accounts
77%
"fake account creation bots – part 1 introduction much of the activity on the internet is automated, and quite a lot of it is specifically due to bots. bots can be used for many purposes, but in this series of articles we ’ ll be looking at bots that create and use fake accounts. …"
T1657Financial Theft
69%
"use this loving relationship as a basis to extort money from the victim. this is like what was depicted in the netflix documentary “ the tinder swindler ”. online dating is a game of large numbers. automation is used to create a large number of fake accounts, and bots are used to…"
T1585.002Email Accounts
68%
"conclusion fake accounts are a growing problem for online platforms, with cybersecurity expert dan woods estimating about 80 % of social media and online dating user accounts to be fake4 and in many cases controlled by bots. there are both benign and malicious reasons for the cre…"
T1585.001Social Media Accounts
59%
"conclusion fake accounts are a growing problem for online platforms, with cybersecurity expert dan woods estimating about 80 % of social media and online dating user accounts to be fake4 and in many cases controlled by bots. there are both benign and malicious reasons for the cre…"
T1585.002Email Accounts
39%
"fake account creation bots – part 1 introduction much of the activity on the internet is automated, and quite a lot of it is specifically due to bots. bots can be used for many purposes, but in this series of articles we ’ ll be looking at bots that create and use fake accounts. …"
T1657Financial Theft
31%
"their hands on them. to prevent these high - speed bots buying up all the inventory within seconds of items going on sale, retailers often use raffles / lotteries to decide who gets to purchase these limited items. this theoretically is to give legitimate humans a fair shot by en…"

Summary

Part one of a series investigating how automation is used to create fake accounts for fraud, disinformation, scams, and account takeover.