Micro blogging site Twitter is the latest target of cyber criminals who are increasingly finding fertile ground on social networks.
A fake Twitter profile with a malicious payload has been spotted by security firm Kaspersky.
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.....
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.....
Only those using Microsoft Windows are vulnerable to infection from these malicious programs.
Change to Apple, people!
There's not much Twitter specific about this, really. It's the site that the link points at that's malicious, and there are *loads* of places that host URLs - delicious, reddit, dig, millions of them.
Don't get *too* complacent about Macs. I'm not aware of any Mac malware in the wild at the moment, but it's not impossible.
Course, the fact that the Mac asks you before running anything that comes from the 'net does mean that if you are careful and don't just click "OK" on dialog boxes without reading them, you should still be OK. But care is still needed.
Posted by: Simon Brunning | Wednesday, 06 August 2008 at 09:35 AM