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.

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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