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Kaspersky has recently introduced a new tool called the "Krab Krawler” that capable in analyzing millions of tweet post on the Twitter website every day and do a blockade of any malware associated with it.
This tools are looking in every public tweet which is appears on Twitter, extracts any URLs within it and then analyzing web pages that lead to other pages, expanding each URL that has been shortened, said Costin Raiu, A senior analyst at Kaspersky malware. This company spies nearly 500,000 new unique URL that appears on Twitter every day. From there it was found that anywhere between 100 and 1000 is a malware attack. Twitter has also become the target of malicious viruses called “Koobface” who came from the twitter user accounts link. Approximately 26 percent of total posts containing a URL, and many of them leading to a spam site marketing a product or service and is not considered malware, said Raiu. Tens of thousands of different accounts have been posting a spam link, most likely from the account created by a Bot, he said. URL posted most often leads to an online dating site, he added.
Even Though twitter has their own filtration system, but some links still managed to escape danger, Raiu said. Regular Kaspersky antivirus can detect and block 95 percent of Twitter users who has infected by malware, malware code has changes often to avoid the filter so it could take between two and 12 hours to be classified as something dangerous and detected by the Karspersky Antivirus, he said.
This tools are looking in every public tweet which is appears on Twitter, extracts any URLs within it and then analyzing web pages that lead to other pages, expanding each URL that has been shortened, said Costin Raiu, A senior analyst at Kaspersky malware. This company spies nearly 500,000 new unique URL that appears on Twitter every day. From there it was found that anywhere between 100 and 1000 is a malware attack. Twitter has also become the target of malicious viruses called “Koobface” who came from the twitter user accounts link. Approximately 26 percent of total posts containing a URL, and many of them leading to a spam site marketing a product or service and is not considered malware, said Raiu. Tens of thousands of different accounts have been posting a spam link, most likely from the account created by a Bot, he said. URL posted most often leads to an online dating site, he added.
Even Though twitter has their own filtration system, but some links still managed to escape danger, Raiu said. Regular Kaspersky antivirus can detect and block 95 percent of Twitter users who has infected by malware, malware code has changes often to avoid the filter so it could take between two and 12 hours to be classified as something dangerous and detected by the Karspersky Antivirus, he said.
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