Security researchers from Symantec warn that the abuse of URL shortening services is increasing with recent large scale malware distribution campaigns using the technique.URL shorteners are great for obfuscating links, especially when many of them are used together to create multiple hops before landing victims to th... |
6 July 2011
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Spammers have began setting up their own URL shortening services in order to hide spam links and make them more resilient to takedowns.The practice of using short URLs in spam is not new and has registered ups and downs over the past couple of years.There was a spike of short URL spam during the last months of 2010, ... |
24 May 2011
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Facebook disabled people's ability to include j.mp links in status and page updates for several hours on Friday because of a high spam rate associated with the URL shortening service.J.mp is a rebranded, younger brother-like version of bit.ly, the most popular URL shortener on the Internet. However, it is also a... |
27 December 2010
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Twitter has announced that URLs posted via Direct Messages will be screened by a new service, which blocks phishing and other attacks. The links are automatically shortened to a twt.tl form, so that they can be blocked at any point in the future.Twitter was recently confronted with a wave of highly successful phishin... |
10 March 2010
10:38 GMT |
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The company operating bit.ly, the Internet's most popular URL shortening service, has enlisted the help of VeriSign, Websense and Sophos to protect its users from spam. Each of the vendors will provide bit.ly with fundamentally different URL checking technologies for what aims to be one of the most complete and ... |
1 December 2009
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A popular URL shortening system called Cligs was compromised Monday morning. The unknown hacker has pointed some 2.2 million short URLs to a legit blog post about Twitter hashtags. URL shortening services allow users to create shorter and more convenient aliases for long URL. These are particularly useful on Twitter... |
17 June 2009
08:16 GMT |
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