Twitter Trojan targets tossers

                   
theregister.co.uk     Aug 5, 2008            

Micro-blogging malware madness big in Brazil Published Tuesday 5th August 2008 11:05 GMT Nail down your security priorities. Ask the experts and your peers at The Register Security Debate, September 24 2008. Micro-blogging service Twitter has fallen prey to malware. Users of the micro-blogging service are being offered up links to booby-trapped sites from a compromised profile. The approach is being used to spread malware in the form of links to a supposed skin flick featuring Brazilian pop star Kelly Key. Prospective marks are told they need to download a new version of Adobe Flash to get their goodies. The fake Adobe Flash download actually contains the malware payload, a downloader that attempts to inject ten banking Trojans into the infected machine. These malicious files are disguised as MP3s, net security firm Kaspersky... [read full story]                    

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Social engineering on Twitter

viruslist.com     Aug 4, 2008          

This week it’s Twitter’s turn to host an attack targeting both Twitter users and the Internet community at large. In this case it's a malicious Twitter profile twitter.com/[skip]/ with a name that is Portuguese for ‘pretty...                    

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Twitter being used to distribute malware

zdnet.com     Aug 4, 2008          

Last week, when I wrote about Aviv Raff's auto follow-me vulnerability on Twitter, I warned that it was only a matter of time before we see nasty social engineering (malware) attacks on the popular microblogging service. Well,...                    

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