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Threat Level Privacy, Crime and Security Online Trick or Tweet? Malware Abundant in Twitter URLs

October 30, 2009

Threat Level Privacy, Crime and Security Online Trick or Tweet? Malware Abundant in Twitter URLs

Wired, By Kim Zetter

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.

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Threat Level Privacy, Crime and Security Online Trick or Tweet? Malware Abundant in Twitter URLs

Threat Level Privacy, Crime and Security Online Trick or Tweet? Malware Abundant in Twitter URLs
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