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Twitter Overflows With Malware

One in 500 tweets links to malicious software, experts say

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(Newser) – Twitter is the perfect malware delivery system, enabling cybercriminals to lure users with a quick tweet on a hot topic and a shortened URL that hides a shady website’s identity. One in 500 URLs posted on Twitter links to live malware, says Kaspersky international, which make a program that searches through tweets. A quarter of Twitter messages contain a URL, Kaspersky tells Wired, and half of those are generated by spammers and other Internet lowlifes.

Alex Lifschitz, of Los Angeles tweets from his on-campus apartment at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Henrietta, N.Y. on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009.
Alex Lifschitz, of Los Angeles tweets from his on-campus apartment at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Henrietta, N.Y. on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009.   (AP Photo/Don Heupel)
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rajanKazhmin
Oct 30, 09 5:48 PM CDT
All those brain dead conservatives on there are ripe for the scamming. Reply
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Oct 30, 09 8:01 PM CDT
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Another reason I'm glad I don't Twitter. Reply
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