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Twitter Targeted

Twitter, the No.1 micro blogging site, has been targeted in the same kind of attack that befell MySpace and Facebook yesterday. A bogus Twitter profile with a malicious payload has been spotted by security firm Kaspersky.

Twitterous

 

The link; which says that it is a link to a pornographic video, downloads the dodgy version of Adobe Flash Player; the file “codecsetup.exe”; just as with the occurrences reported yesterday: http://kkomp.com/archives/827 And exactly the same result too: You’re suddenly a part of a botnet, sending span, phishing attacks, and DOS attacks.

Variants of the worms are already appearing according to security firm Kaspersky; who spotted this and yesterday’s two attacks also.

The attack appears to originate in Brazil, a conclusion based upon the use of the Portuguese language, the location of the servers that download the trojans, and the email addresses used also.

Once again only Windows users are vulnerable to these worms etc; so therefore would it be logical to conclude that the perpetrator is a South-American Linux zealot with an axe to grind?

 

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Comment by David Beckham Subscribed to comments via email
2008-08-05 22:25:38

wow! this is amazing news! how long have you been using computers? do you really think this boring drivel is intersting? are you autistic or what man? get a life!

Comment by Shazza
2008-08-05 23:05:34

Apparently you’re not the only one who thinks it’s amazing news: Database Management thought so too. http://www.databasemanagementconsulting.com/2008/08/twitter-targeted/ .

What exactly is your problem?

 
 
Comment by David Bekham Subscribed to comments via email
2008-08-05 22:26:57

you stupid blog is not even working!

Comment by Shazza
2008-08-05 22:58:47

No; it’s your spelling and grammar that’s not working.

 
 

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