March 30, 2010 at 18:17What is behind the short links on twitter?
More than one million short links (1,314,615 of which 773 turned out to be malicious) were analyzed by analysts at Zscaler . As a result of this, interesting results were obtained:
There is an opinion that twitter is often used to carry out phishing attacks, the above statistics completely refute this statement. There were also very few links that lead directly to a web page with an exploit (less than a percent). Apparently this is due to the introduction of various mechanisms for checking the transferred links, including on the reduction services themselves.
There is an opinion that twitter is often used to carry out phishing attacks, the above statistics completely refute this statement. There were also very few links that lead directly to a web page with an exploit (less than a percent). Apparently this is due to the introduction of various mechanisms for checking the transferred links, including on the reduction services themselves.