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Twitter is beginning to filter out the dangerous link

August 8th, 2009 admin No comments

In the months of June and July we have emphasized the wave of attacks where the victim was Twitter, the first case Just (dot) ru and further Koobface.

In both cases the main feature was the spam on user profiles of links pointing to malicious sites containing malware.

Just to intervene in this direction, Twitter has started to filter the URLs classified as hazardous, as confirmed by Mikko Hypp

The email spam to 92% of total messages

August 4th, 2009 admin No comments

16% of spam comes from the United States

July 29th, 2009 admin No comments

Sophos, which saw the U.S. leading the nations most “active” as part of sending junk mail.

The other two steps of the podium, according to study by McAfee.

The activities of spammers, Cluley points out, has been recently favored by the massive use of new services tinyURL or