Twitter spam just took a new twist. In addition to all the regular marketing spam on Twitter (which the service is has tried to combat with its own blacklist), now there is something even more malicious: a computer attack disguised as spam.
Computer security company Kaspersky Lab has found a Twitter profile that ostensibly looks like it is promoting pornographic downloads. But when you download the “Adobe Flash” player necessary to watch the video, it installs a Trojan Horse piece of software that can take over your computer. Kaspersky suspects Brazilian hackers. The name of the profile means “pretty rabbit” in Portuguese.
From the screen shot, it doesn’t look like the Twitter account only has one follower. The hackers are more likely using the Twitter page as a link that won’t draw as much scrutiny as a standalone Website. And you thought everyone on Twitter was nice.
haha i knew twitter was useful
NOT
You guys should have your interns proofing your posts instead of giving Arrington sponge baths all day.
I know, a lot of grammer problems.
Pot calling the kettle black er
It’s grammar.
Well done there!
FYI – the Blacklist that you referred to in this blog post (linking to the May 7th story) was *not* a list that was maintained by Twitter. You might want to correct that because it’s very misleading. And you might want to deadpool that Twitter Blacklist because it’s no longer being kept up to date.
A trojan disguised as pornography? Now I’ve seen everything!
Just got a twitter spammer block by them, they are really finding and banning such people pretty quickly
don’t worry people, FOR TWITTER WILL BE DOWN!
If you’re going to obscure the user id, you might want to include the “block” link as well.
BTW, I checked out the twitter page and that porn/trojan link is gone.
Can someone tell me why the TechCrunch emails are coming to me from: fb? I wish it did not.
Twitter needs TwitAssassin… it could be done. RBL’s and some checks…
I see similar things in Google Trends, when you click the top results, there are blog posts next to it, which has some viruses on it and tries to install programs.
It’s Brazilian for sure. Kelly Key is a notorius singer here.
Twitter needs the Gotham Tech Minute… http://www.goth...te.blogspot.com
TechCrunch = TwitCrunch.
More Twitter non-news. I can’t believe you think news about spam is actually worth anyone’s time.
And does not like the Kaspersky, they always let my computer run slow.
but they only had 2 updates, and 1 follower…. I mean… it’s hardly mass panic time. malware will be adapted to whatever platform is popular….
Hi
I use twitter to promote my new site showmehowto.org when people follow me I follow them but tell them I multi post, I want people to use the site when members post a Fun or tutorial video they get a free 486×60 banner and link that runs above to use to promote their own blog or website, now I don’t think of it as spam more like ITN or BBC promoting and people visit the site, I agree spam is a pain if you know how to set up soft ware to stop it, do a video and post it.
But I can’t help thinking that there are all these web security companies telling us about evil spam and wooden horses who does it profit that these things are out there and they seem to find the answer real quick!
Ei Marcio…. é uma notória cantora sim kkkkk
principalmente pelo seu enorme e notório “ass” hehehe
valeu.
Twitter is useful finally….
the hackers are just good and getting better.