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Compromised Twitter Accounts Spread Links to Drive-By Downloads It appears that a new worm is spreading by hijacking Twitter accounts and using them to advertise links to a drive-by download website.The attack starts with goo.gl shortened URLs being sent by users whose computers have already been infected by this new threat.We’ve seen several of these links so far and they ...	7 December 2010 06:00 GMT

Mikeyy's Worms Hit Twitter for the Fourth Time Late on Saturday and Monday, the increasingly popular micro-blogging platform Twitter faced the e-wrath of Mikeyy again. A new worm released by the teenager affected its users, who unwillingly began to post new rogue messages on their profiles. During this past weekend, the Twitter staff fought a cat-and-mouse game ...	14 April 2009 06:39 GMT

Twitter Hit Three Times by Worms During the Weekend Several sustained attacks against Twitter users have created quite a stir on the micro-blogging platform, over the weekend. The incidents caused logged-in Twitters who were visiting compromised profiles to automatically propagate the worm by posting unauthorized messages. The first attacks hit during the early hours...	13 April 2009 08:14 GMT

More Twitter Clickjacking After the Twitter staff had a hard time patching a harmless, but intriguing, clickjacking attack originally launched by a French blogger, a British web developer has come up with a similar new way to mess with the users of the micro-blogging website. At the end of January, a URL with a message reading "Don't cl...	27 February 2009 06:26 GMT

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