Twitter and Facebook users were getting hit with scams on Monday.

Twitter users warned about direct messages that said, “I make money online with Google. I learned how here [link],” according to Twitter users.

A Twitter representative said it was not a phishing scam because the site to which the spam links does not ask for a user name and password, or look like a Twitter page.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

By Elinor Mills

Kaspersky unveiled a new tool on Thursday called “Krab Krawler” that analyzes the millions of tweets posted on Twitter every day and blocks any malware associated with them.

The tool looks at every public post as it appears on Twitter, extracts any URLs in them and analyzes the Web page …

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

By Elinor Mills