Academics have found a massive, and hidden, swarm of over 350,000 Twitter bots themed around Star Wars that has laid dormant for roughly three years. They believe it is managed by a single person and could have “significant implications for cybersecurity”. Such bots are autonomous accounts that require no human input to function and spread.
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