Twitter admits it verified several fake accounts. Alex Stamos, Facebook's former chief security officer, noted that many of the account names appeared to be Turkish, suggesting that the incident could be linked to a nation-state operation. This #security incident raises questions about how the accounts were able to get verified in the first place, and why #Twitter's processes didn't flag them before they were discovered by a third-party researcher #cyber #threats #botnet

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