Widespread Illicit Promotion on Twitter: Uncovering the Scale, Diversity, and Evasion Tactics of Cybercrime Campaigns

Illicit promotion activities are prevalent on Twitter, with over 12 million distinct posts identified across 580,530 Twitter accounts. These posts span diverse categories of illicit goods and services, including pornography, gambling, illegal drugs, money laundering, and data theft, and are distributed in multiple natural languages.