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Twitter: a treasure trove of malware

Twitter: a treasure trove of malware

Kaspersky, an anti-virus and computer-security firm based in Moscow, created a tool called Krab Krawler, a program that searches through tweets. According to the company, ‘a quarter of Twitter messages contain a URL and half of those are generated by spammers and other Internet lowlifes.’ It seems that Twitter has been used by cybercriminals as [...]