Spam in social networks grew 355% in the first half of the year - TeK.sapo

According to Nexgate State of Social Media Spam Report, released by Mashable, between January and June this year one in 200 posts are published on social networks spam originating from accounts created for this purpose .

The number remains far below the relevance of spam in email, which represents about 70% of messages. Still, reveals significant growth of the phenomenon that accompanies the growing popularity of these services.

Only Facebook, which the authors identified as one of the platforms most attacked by spam numbers more than 1.1 billion users. YouTube is the second most targeted service by false messages.

The data collected for the study from the analysis of 60 million messages on services such as Twitter, LinkedIn, or Google+, than above Google and YouTube. The research took place between 2011 and 2013.

The study also reveals that the techniques used by spammers to distribute their content and use it to try to captivate a message or link to access other content are increasingly sophisticated . One of the examples highlighted as is the usual technique of applications that allow you to query the number of users viewing certain profile.

Other findings point to the fact that five out of seven new spam being created and also show that 5 % of existing apps on these platforms are spam. About 15% of spam detected include links that direct the user to pornographic, spam or malware.

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