What is behind the short links on twitter?
Over one million short links (1,314,615 of which 773 were malicious) were analyzed by analysts from Zscaler . As a result of this interesting results turned out:
It is believed that Twitter is often used to implement phishing attacks, the above statistics completely disproves this claim. There were also very few links that lead directly to the web page with the exploit (less than a percent). Apparently this is due to the introduction of various mechanisms for checking the transmitted links, including on the reduction services themselves.
It is believed that Twitter is often used to implement phishing attacks, the above statistics completely disproves this claim. There were also very few links that lead directly to the web page with the exploit (less than a percent). Apparently this is due to the introduction of various mechanisms for checking the transmitted links, including on the reduction services themselves.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/89413/
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