Twitter targeted by malware attacks

September 5, 2008 – 5:39 AM

Twitter’s time has finally come.

The microblogging service, once the playground of the Web 2.0 digerati, is now mainstream enough to be targeted by online criminals.

Kaspersky Lab has uncovered a fake Twitter profile created solely for the purpose of infecting people’s computers.

The profile, with an alias that means “pretty rabbit” in Portuguese, has posted a link that purports to be a pornographic video, but is instead Trojan software masquerading as MP3 files that steals data from the machine, according to the Kaspersky’s Viruslist.com blog.

Source:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10007323-2.htm

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