{"id":3778,"date":"2014-08-27T23:53:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T15:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2015-09-09T19:36:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T11:36:46","slug":"twitter-patents-technique-detect-mobile-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2014\/08\/twitter-patents-technique-detect-mobile-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Patents Technique To Detect Mobile Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"

So it was discovered that Twitter<\/a> has been granted a patent which covers detection of mobile malware on websites to protect its user base. The patent was filed back in 2012, but well – as we know these things take time.<\/p>\n

The method is something like the technology Google uses in Chrome to warn you if a webpage is malicious and it prompts you not to visit.<\/p>\n

\"Twitter<\/p>\n

It utilises multiple signals to detect mobile malware and protect the user from being infected (by calculating the probably of the page being malicious).<\/p>\n

Twitter has been granted a patent for detecting malware on mobile sites, according to a filing made public this month.<\/p>\n

According to the patent, filed back in 2012, Twitter could protect users from malware by crawling websites with \u201can emulated mobile device to cause behaviors to occur which may be malicious.\u201d After Twitter\u2019s bot visits a given mobile site, the \u201cbehaviors \u2026 are stored [and] classified as hard or soft signals.\u201d<\/p>\n

From there, Twitter\u2019s patent describes a method for assessing the \u201cprobability of the webpage being malicious,\u201d after which it is \u201cclassified as malicious or non-malicious.\u201d Finally, Twitter describes how visitors of the site, the site\u2019s developer, and the \u201cdistributor of the webpage\u201d (perhaps the user who tweeted the link) will be alerted if the site has been classified as malware.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n