The popularity of social networking is increasing, and this popularity has also attracted large amounts of malware. One of the main attack techniques used in social networking sites involves the use of a shortened URL. Under normal circumstances, the shortened URL is used to efficiently send a link within the e-mail or on web pages to other web pages.
Last year, attackers have posted millions of short link this to social networking sites to trick the victim to phishing attacks and malware infections that increase the success rate drastically. This report reveals that the attacker is utilizing the ability of news-feeds provided by well-known social networking sites to send attack en masse.
In this scenario, the attacker walked into a social networking account that was hijacked and post a short link that directs to a malicious website in the status of the victim. Social networking sites are then automatically send the link to a news feed her friends so spread the link to hundreds or thousands of potential victims in minutes.
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