'Krab Krawler' tool detects malware in Twitter links
Published: 30 Oct 2009 10:09 GMT
Kaspersky unveiled a new tool on Thursday called 'Krab Krawler' that analyses the millions of tweets posted on Twitter every day and blocks any malware associated with them.
The tool looks at every public post as it appears on Twitter, extracts any URLs in them and analyses the web page they lead to, expanding any URLS that have been shortened, Costin Raiu, a senior malware analyst at Kaspersky, said in an interview.
The company is scanning nearly 500,000 new unique URLs that appear in Twitter posts daily, he said. Of those, anywhere between 100 and 1,000 are malware attacks. Twitter has also been targeted by the Koobface virus which posts malicious links from infected users' accounts.
For the full story, see Kaspersky tool detects malware in Twitter links on CNET News.
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