A Sprawling Bot Network Used Fake Porn to Fool Facebook
Briefly

The team at Qurium was blocking up to 60,000 IP addresses a day from accessing Bulatlat's website.Lundström and his team found that the attack was just the start of it.Lundström and his team found that requests for pages on Bulatlat's website were actually coming from Facebook links disguised to look like links to pornography.WIRED contacted the email attached to the Facebook page for comment but did not receive a response.Qurium further traced the domain name to an email registered to a person called Mien Trung Vinh.
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