In a striking development, cybersecurity researcher Federico Andres Lois has
identified a critical bug in Twitter’s source code that could let threat actors
manipulate the platform’s algorithm and suppress posts from appearing on users’
feeds.
identified a critical bug in Twitter’s source code that could let threat actors
manipulate the platform’s algorithm and suppress posts from appearing on users’
feeds.
The flaw, dubbed the “Shadow Ban” bug, has been assigned a CVE (Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures) number to highlight its significance, and is now
tracked as CVE-2023-29218
[https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-29218].
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