The document summarizes a presentation given at the Virus Bulletin 2009 conference about detecting malware on Twitter. It discusses how Twitter works and notable malware incidents that have spread on the platform. It then describes the architectures of two systems - Krab Krawler from Kaspersky Lab and Red Twarf from Trend Micro - that analyze URLs from Twitter to detect malicious links and monitor for new attack patterns.
First malware link as far as we can determine was posted to Twitter in August 2008 It was a link to a website that was trying to distribute a banking trojan through social engineering tricks