spam – In the Wyrd

@spam: The underground on 140 characters or less

Posted on August 21, 2010 by kurt

This post is based on research to appear in CCS 2010 — an advance pdf is available under my publications To understand spam propagating within Twitter, we plugged into Twitter’s streaming API and monitored tweets submitted to the site over… Continue Reading →

Koobface Spam

Posted on March 8, 2010 by kurt

The Koobface botnet preys on social networking sites as its primary means of propagation. Unsuspecting victims browsing Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks are sent messages from users they believe to be friends. In truth, these users are either compromised… Continue Reading →