Malware Abundant in Twitter URLs
Kaspersky Labs has announced a new tool today called Krab Krawler that examines every post on Twitter and analyzes any linked web pages for malware.
Kaspersky Labs has announced a new tool today called Krab Krawler that examines every post on Twitter and analyzes any linked web pages for malware.
As many as one in every 500 web addresses posted on Twitter lead to sites hosting malware, according to researchers at Kaspersky Labs who have deployed a tool that examines URLs circulating in tweets. The spread of malware is aided by the popular use of shortened URLs on Twitter, which generally hide the real website address from users before they click on a link, preventing them from self-filtering links that appear to be dodgy.
