Sunbelt Software security researcher Christopher Boyd has discovered a tool that creates botnets controlled by Twitter accounts.

"TwitterNet Builder offers script kiddies a point-type-and-click interface that forces infected PCs to take commands from a Twitter account under the control of attackers," writes The Register's Dan Goodin.

"Bot herders can then force the zombies to carry out denial-of-service attacks or silently download and install software with the ease of their Twitter-connected smartphones," Goodin writes.

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