Hi-tech criminals target Twitter

August 8th 2008 in Internet

Micro blogging site Twitter is the latest target of cyber criminals who are increasingly finding fertile ground on social networks.

A fake Twitter profile with a malicious payload has been spotted by security firm Kaspersky.

It purports to link to a pornographic video but downloads a fake version of Adobe Flash which installs programs capable of stealing data.

The attack is believed to be the first to target Twitter.

More At BBC.CO.UK


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“Hi-tech criminals target Twitter”
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Saravanan Sahadevan

Well.. its been a while this thing is going around.. only lately it has got onto the eyes on the fame..

Well according to the twitter blog, it does not bring any harm to you who visit profiles.. as there is no way a malware can be hosted on twitter’s server.. But however.. this is spread through links. So beware of what links you are clicking on.
Don’t click on links on all those spammers you see on twitter.


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novinthen

Saranx : Spammer killing the industry man! :sad: :evil:


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Saravanan Sahadevan

Yep… Well be smart on who you follow…


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vickn3s

ingeyum virus a?adhuiii


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nisha

why im not getting twitter updated in my handset? :cry: :cry:




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