Twitter Catches Another Worm, Cuts Off Its Head
Twitter Catches Another Worm, Cuts Off Its Head
Posted 09/27/2010 at 9:39am
| by Paul Lilly
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For the second time in a week, a worm has managed to crawl through Twitter's microblogging infrastructure and post malicious links.
The worm worked its malicious mojo behind the scenes. When a user would click on a link reading, "WTF: <link>" they would be shown a blank page. But while they were staring at an empty page, the worm would get busy posting vulgar messages to Twitter from the victim's account.
Twitter was aware of the problem, and as of Sunday evening said they have "fixed the exploit and are in the process of removing the offending Tweets."
Image Credit: Sophos
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dentaku
September 27, 2010 at 4:47pm
I wonder if Scoble got hit by it? Annoying the annoying guy would be kinda fitting.
Keith E. Whisman
September 27, 2010 at 12:25pm
Are you sure this is a bad thing? It sounds like it's something that just posts Gordon's rants after you click on it.
I'm actually going to look for it so I can click on it as many times as possible.
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