Twitter say bye to malicious links - Phishing link filter for Twitter

Twitter will introduce a new filtering system to find and remove links which shows any kind of malicious activities. Since Twitter faces issues with phishing links which steals private and sensitive details of twitter users , they introduce the system. According to the new filtering system ,all links should pass through a filter which can identify the links with malicious behavior and remove it. The main focus of the filter will be on links sent via direct messages and e-mail notifications. Last month Twitter faced issues with so many phishing activities. Twitter blog says about the anatomy of usual phishing attack against Twitter users. According to Twitter team it falls in following three categories.

1. User Accounts send out phishing messages to all accounts following them

2. Accounts that are newly compromised send out more messages

3. Scammers behind the phishing attack make an attempt at monetization by sending out spam links instead of links to a fake login page

So Let us hope the new filter will help to prevent all malicious phishing links in Twitter.


For more details please go through the links shown under source.
Source:

http://blog.twitter.com/2010/02/avoid-phishing-scams.html


http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10467152-245.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0


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