Botnets Take to Mobile Dating App Tinder to Flirt and Hurt
While it may be engaging banter, there are no human hands behind the messages. “After users swipe the right button on Tinder to indicate that they like a profile, the bots engage users in automated conversations until they convince them to click on a dubious link,” explained Catalin Cosoi, chief security strategist at Bitdefender, in a blog. “The name of the URL gives the impression of an official page of the dating app and for extra legitimacy scammers also registered it on a reputable .com domain.”