Security software developer Bitdefender has announced the release of a beta version of its Safego, anti-scam protection for Twitter users. Initially launched on Facebook, Safego identifies social scams, spam, phishing and other e-threats by identifying new and recurrent social threat behaviour.
Users can to sort their existing and potential Twitter contacts and rate them on a four-item colour coded scale. Accounts rated as ‘red’ would be highly suspicious, followed by yellow, gray and, finally, green indicating safe accounts.
Once the app is installed account activity is scanned automatically and notifications concerning possible threats are sent to the account holder by means of direct messages.
Users can also rely on a scan on demand function. In this way, they can check whether prospective contacts’ accounts are safe before actually choosing to follow them and exposing their own accounts to unwanted security risks.
Safego will scan private messages in order to detect spam and malicious links, as well as messages illicitly used for the dissemination of scams. Over the past few months hacktivist groups have compromised accounts for TV stations Fox News and NBC. Many users have also had their accounts appropriated for spreading malware via links promising funny pictures of a user’s followers.
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