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Twitter is under attack by yet another worm. This one is spreading via a Twitter message claiming to be an invite from your friends and asking that you check the attachment for more info. The attachment contains the Ackantta.B worm which is capable of taking over any machine it infects.
When it’s installed it immediately searches for any email contacts and sends itself to them, and sends your IP address to its botnet and prepares your PC for even more malware downloads. Fortunately, since most people are wary of opening attachments and many ISPs either scan or outright block zip files, this latest worm is not expected to spread very rapidly. It appears to be the work of some rather dim scammers.
Twitter has been a hot spot for worm, spam, and phishing attacks this year with the Mikeyy worm, the TwitterCut phishing scam, and numerous other attacks hitting the site. To protect yourself, don’t automatically follow people who follow you (check out their profiles first), don’t click on URLs in Tweets from people you don’t absolutely trust, and consider protecting your tweets so only people you approve can see them.
Read [PCWorld]
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“It appears to be the work of some rather dim scammers.”
Which just goes to prove, there is even room for the “mediocre-talented” cyber criminal in the new Social Network Scammer Sandbox.
I am growing more and more frustrated daily as free webmail providers (that’s you Google) and Social Networks (Facebook Twitter, et al.) refuse to adopt more stringent security measures to thwart these malicious adventures.
When will the user demand extended validation SSL. Do users actually have a cavalier attitude toward security because their wallet is not open?
on June 21, 2009 at 04:42 PM - LINKThis is not a good that sine whenever some one want to attach or send invitation any other they will refused to accept due this.
But all this is the way is illegal and also involving in Cyber Crime. So due to this lots if users frustrate daily. and also lost of data and time .
All we know that whom they do such duty on time if they come to manage us and make something new will be better to all.
Thanx
on June 22, 2009 at 03:22 AM - LINK