Professional Documents
Culture Documents
26 Billion
55 50 45 40 35
30
25 20
1
2
7 2010
10
11
12
Source: Nielsen
Social Networks
Hundreds of Millions of Users
Account Hijackings
Lil Wayne
January 2011
Steve Wozniak
Qantas Airlines
Security flaws
Malware on Twitter
1 in 100
posts on
Twitter
are spam/malicious
Goo.glShortener+ NeoSploit
December 2010 Goo.gl shortened links are sent Links point to a French Furniture manufacturer Several redirects lead to site infected with NeoSploit exploit kit
suspicious 8%
spyware 11%
spam 60%
MALtrace&URLtrace:
Malware Analysis w. Virtualization
Load samples into Maltrace/URLtrace Maltrace allows the malware to run on a virtual PC Uses heavyweight virtualization in a scalable manner 128 VMs simultaneously in flight per 1U processing node Network traffic is captured and creates signatures
URLTrace Examples
10
Other 57%
Crime Rate
twitter crime rate is the percentage of accounts created per month that are eventually suspended by Twitter
During Red Carpet Era: Twitter Crime Rate increased 66% from 2.02% to 3.36% This more than tripled over the following four months, escalating to 12% in October 2009.
Tweet Number
5-9 1-4 10-99 5.2 10.7 <1 79.2 3.7 0.2 >100
Account
skincarewonder
instantbiztips
Tweet Number
161.94
184.58
Followers-Friends Delta
-467
462
ProfileProtector.com
Facebook Attacks
1 in 60
posts on
Facebook
are spam/malicious
Likejacking
Search Malware
Source: comscore
Data Set
4
153 157,154
36,972,206
Search Engines (Bing, Google, Twitter, Yahoo) Days Popular Topics Search Results
Yahoo 30%
rex+ryan 8%
abby+road 7%
music+video 17%
jenni+jwoww 15%
nfl 10%
Lebron James
Lebron James (1 of 4)
72
Lebron James (2 of 4)
73
Lebron James (3 of 4)
Lebron James (4 of 4)
Survey Results:
Social Networking Security and Privacy
Summary
Attackers are focusing more on social networks and search engines to reach users. Viral features provide efficient tools for attackers Behavior-based features show promise of building a foundation for User Reputation. ProfileProtector.com @BarracudaLabs