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Hi-tech criminals target Twitter
Matt "Maxel" - August 6th, 2008 2:42 AM
The blogging site, Twitter, has been the latest target for cyber criminals according to a the site as they found a user account in their system which could steal user’s personal information.
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.
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The attack is believed to have originated in Brazil because of the language it uses, the servers it calls on to download trojans and the e-mail address used to collect stolen data.
The fake profile has a name that means “pretty rabbit” in Portuguese. It tries to convince users to download the fake Flash video viewer in order to watch the associated video.
It comes as Kaspersky also releases details about two worms that target social networking sites MySpace and Facebook. More variants of these worms are also starting to turn up.
The worms transformed victims’ machines into zombie computers, used by criminals to send spam, launch phishing attacks and harvest data.
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