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Core Security Labs researcher Pedro Varangot has released a tool that impersonates a Twitter user's account, enabling an attacker to target that user's followers.

"The initial version executes attacks on Twitter, but Varangot says it can be extended to work against Facebook and other social networks," writes DarkReading's Kelly Jackson Higgins. "The tool is based on Core's Exomind, an experimental Python-based framework written to test social network, search engines, and instant messaging attacks."

"Varangot says the goal is to provide organizations with a tool for social networking security training, penetration testing, or just to show how these attacks could work," Higgins writes.