Twitter is being used by many people around the world in recent days. It is a free social networking and microblogging service that allows its users to read and post messages. Due to its increasing popularity, Twitter has exercised its effort to stop attacks, including spam, worms such as Mikeyy, and phishing. Twitter confirmed that the site was hacked last May, where an individual account information was also leaked.
In this regard, Kaspersky found a new tool called "Krab Krawl. "Million will be analyzed in Twitter tweets published every day and block any malware associated with them.
Krab Krawl be:
• look at any public position, as shown in Twitter
• extracts any URLs in them, and analyzes the web page to be
• extends the URLs have been shortened
Twitter examines nearly 500,000 new unique URLs each day where there are about 100 to 1,000 malware attacks happen. Virus of Koobface has turned to Twitter by posting malicious links on the infected user accounts. Twenty-six (26) percent of total reorientation Twitter entries containing URLs to spam sites that are marketing products or services and not considered malware. Thousands of accounts to send spam links created by robots. Most of the redirect URL line dating sites.
Kaspersky Anti-virus software can detect and block regular ninety-five (95) percent of users are afraid Twitter malware. Some companies focus antivirus protection e-mail borne viruses, but also pay more attention to social media, sites now. For now, SecureTweets Finjan offers users of Twitter. SecureTweets browser is a free plug-in warning users since come to a malicious URL on Twitter, also includes Blogger, Gmail, Google, MSN, MySpace, Yahoo and more sites.
Attackers like hitting the social media sites, because many people use them and trust the messages from there with more friends than they do in the emails. According Kaspersky, Trojan-Clicker.HTMLIFrame is the most common piece of malware related to Twitter. This is a malicious JavaScript that can be transferred to the computer when you visit a Web site infected.
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Eric Bidelman (w. Monsur Hossain) – Google Data APIs & Oauth
