Technique

User-agent spoofing

technique:user_agent_spoofing Also: user agent modification

Changing the client user agent to imitate the device used by the target account.

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Direction Predicate Other entity Origin EP
incoming USES The Guild of the Grumpy Old Hackers Explicit 87

Claims

The Guild of the Grumpy Old Hackers USES User-agent spoofing

The Guild modified its user agent to imitate Trump's Samsung Galaxy S3.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Victor EP 87 Details

“You had to start messing with your user agent because you know that he’s using a very old Android phone”

Victor · offsets 29307–29410

“they switched their user agent to look like Trump’s Samsung S3”