Twitter malware warning
Just a quick warning to people – Kaspersky Labs report that a Twitter profile has been used to distribute malware.
A profile image linked to a video of a Brazilian model, but in fact the link led to a malware download. Twitter have since removed the link but there is no indication that the exploit has been plugged as of yet.
If clicked, the link showed a window displaying progress of a download of a new version of Adobe Flash supposedly required to watch the video. It is actually a fake file labelled Adobe Flash. This is a Trojan downloader that proceeds to download malware files onto the infected computer, all of which are disguised as MP3 files.
This follows on from another ‘forced follow me’ exploit which is apparently still not fixed for Internet Explorer users.
More info : http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1640
Ouch, I wasn’t aware that Twitter could be exploited like that! Thanks for the heads up, that’s pretty odd that they haven’t worked out the small kinks in the system like this even after they upgraded all their services recently.
Heheh, I knew twitter was evil! Thanks for the warning mate
thats why everyone really has to have a fullpacked security system installed on their pcs..