The VKontakte social network has added support for instant messaging clients to its capabilities. Visitors to this service can now communicate via the XMPP (Jabber) protocol. Among the supported messengers are MiRobots for catching spammers on Twitter and Facebook are paid by ... Google. As the journalists of the Technology Review website found out, researchers from the Texas A&M University create dozens of false accounts on the microblogging service Twitter, which they use to lure and study the work of spammers and authors of phishing scams. This work is paid for by a special grant provided by Google,
Direct competitor of Twitter in the field of online socialization. New France Phone Number messages taken from the 120,000-strong collection of real tweets are sent daily from such bogus Twitter accounts. In addition to Twitter, similar traps have been created on MySpace. Scientists monitoring the activities of cybercriminals have developed special software that allows monitoring of these accounts in both networks in order to obtain data on the tactics of spammers. As of now, 61 traps on Twitter have helped collect information on 30,867 spammers. According to researchers, most spammers pose as former classmates of potential victims and attack men's accounts.
The next goal of scientists is to catch spammers on Facebookranda (Windows), Qip Pro/Infium (Windows), Pidgin(Windows/Linux/Mac) and Adium(Mac) and others, including mobile ones. As reported on the VKontakte support page, now, in order to communicate with your friends on this social network, it is not necessary to use a browser and go to the service page, it is enough to have at least a mobile phone. By the way, support for Jabber appeared not so long ago in the world's largest social network, Facebook.