{"id":39370,"date":"2021-01-29T15:51:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T15:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e49077df-8a43-4d4f-ad5c-fcd290450cd2"},"modified":"2021-01-29T15:51:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T15:51:12","slug":"a-network-of-twitter-bots-has-attacked-the-belgian-governments-huawei-5g-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/a-network-of-twitter-bots-has-attacked-the-belgian-governments-huawei-5g-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"A network of Twitter bots has attacked the Belgian government&#8217;s Huawei 5G ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"image image-original shortcode-image\"><span class=\"img aspect-set \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zdnet1.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/2021\/01\/29\/311e97af-c998-4abe-9e1d-edc8ee2d8a5e\/belgium-5g-huawei-botnet.png\" class alt=\"belgium-5g-huawei-botnet.png\"><\/span><figcaption><span class=\"caption\"><\/span><span class=\"credit\"> Image source: Graphika; Edited: ZDNet <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Social media research group Graphika has published a report today exposing a small network of 14 Twitter accounts that engaged in a coordinated campaign to criticize the Belgian government&#8217;s plan to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/belgium-huawei-restrictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">ban Huawei from supplying 5G equipment<\/a>&nbsp;to local telecommunications providers.<\/p>\n<p>The accounts used fake names and posed as Belgium-based tech and 5G experts. They also used profile images generated&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thispersondoesnotexist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">using machine learning GAN algorithms<\/a>, a technique that is gaining traction with more and more social media influence networks.<\/p>\n<p>In a 33-page report [<a href=\"https:\/\/public-assets.graphika.com\/reports\/graphika_report_fake_cluster_boosts_huawei.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">PDF<\/a>] published today, Graphika researchers said the accounts spent their time retweeting content from popular accounts and mixing it with their own tweets that attacked the Belgian government&#8217;s decision to ban &#8220;high-risk&#8221; providers from its national 5G network, along with tweets that praised Huawei as a reliable investor and partner.<\/p>\n<p>These tweets would often link to articles sponsored by Huawei itself, articles from news agencies registered at non-existing addresses, or articles with the same text and headline but hosted across multiple newly-registered news sites and blogs.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the most common sources were domains like london-globe.com, newyorkglobe.co, toplinenews.eu, and eureporter.co.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image image-original shortcode-image\"><span class=\"img aspect-set \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/a-network-of-twitter-bots-has-attacked-the-belgian-governments-huawei-5g-ban\/\" class=\"lazy\" alt=\"belgium-5g-huawei-botnet-headlines.png\" data-original=\"https:\/\/zdnet1.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/2021\/01\/29\/ad6bf668-5889-4200-9c10-33d91aa0b7f8\/belgium-5g-huawei-botnet-headlines.png\"><\/span><noscript><span class=\"img aspect-set \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zdnet1.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/2021\/01\/29\/ad6bf668-5889-4200-9c10-33d91aa0b7f8\/belgium-5g-huawei-botnet-headlines.png\" class alt=\"belgium-5g-huawei-botnet-headlines.png\"><\/span><\/noscript><figcaption><span class=\"caption\"><\/span><span class=\"credit\"> Image: Graphika <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Graphika researchers said that while past Twitter botnets worked in an automated fashion, this smaller network appeared to have been manually operated, with all tweets being hand-written for each of the 14 accounts.<\/p>\n<p>But despite the small number of accounts that were part of this botnet, tweets were often amplified by other accounts, including what appeared to be a second network of Twitter bots.<\/p>\n<section class=\"sharethrough-top\" data-component=\"medusaContentRecommendation\" data-medusa-content-recommendation-options=\"{&quot;promo&quot;:&quot;promo_zd_recommendation_sharethrough_top_in_article_desktop&quot;,&quot;spot&quot;:&quot;dfp-in-article&quot;}\"> <\/section>\n<p>&#8220;These were created in batches and featured a &#8220;house style&#8221; of pictures of mainly Western women, and handles that consisted of seven letters followed by eight numbers,&#8221; Graphica researchers said.<\/p>\n<p>This campaign targeting the Belgian government did not go unnoticed and several Belgian tech and government workers also spotting it on their own last month.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-source\">\n<div class=\"twitterContainer\" readability=\"5.9363957597173\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"5.9363957597173\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So here&#8217;s the thread on Huawei I promised yesterday. It seems Huawei is using social media black ops tactics to try to convince policy-makers in Belgium that it can be trusted to build 5G networks. \ud83e\udd28 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/noZKM13RuD\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-component=\"externalLink\">pic.twitter.com\/noZKM13RuD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michiel van Hulten (@mvanhulten) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mvanhulten\/status\/1341376781039915008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" data-component=\"externalLink\">December 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>All in all, Graphika did not specifically conclude that any of the 14 accounts were controlled by Huawei or a related entity, leaving this question unanswered.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Graphika noted that some Huawei employees in Western Europe had often retweeted some of this bot network&#8217;s content.<\/p>\n<p>All 14 Twitter accounts have now been suspended.<\/p>\n<p> READ MORE <a 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