Towns porn name hijacked on Twitter – Västerbotten Courier

Domestic Many of its cities have been exposed to porn spam on Twitter.

For several weeks have pornographic pictures of women been partly # Jonkoping, # Nykoping, # Norrköping and # Eslöv, reports the P4 Jönköping.

the images affects the marketing of cities:

– hashtag’s free, so there’s nothing we can control. But we must notify when we see the posts and hope that Twitter will remove it, says Linda Myrendal, marketers Destination Jönköping.

It could be a spam bomb:

– But it is not a targeted attack against these municipalities. There are some spamming bots that have come over a list of various hashtags with Swedish cities, said David Jacoby, IT security expert at the company Kaspersky Lab, said.

According to David Jacoby, it is likely that several different people behind porn bomb.

– Picture links lead to different domains. Certainly it is hard for municipalities to these images shared on their hashtag, but that’s what happens when you click a link that is interesting. I do not know exactly what these pages do as links to pictures.