Worm Attack Via Twitter Google URL

A worm attacked users of microblogging site Twitter. They trap the user with the URL of Google's services infiltrated.

According to an observation link penyingkat goo.gl ending in 'od0az' or 'R7f68', when users click the link directed to a site that turned out to have been compromised by the worm.

"We are aware of worm that infiltrated it, users reset passwords for users affected," said Anup Ghosh founder Invincea researchers said as quoted by Softpedia

"We will certainly be monitoring the situation in this assault case further," he added.

This worm spread by anyone who clicks on that URL, which will bring users to a Web site based French furniture, Artcan Développement, and then direct them to the site or the php executable that is designed to infect computers and then spread the worm.

There is speculation also says that the worm to propagate through advertising tweets "Filwrs." So, if you see an ad tweet "Filwrs" in your news feeds, you are advised to revoke access to Twitter by clicking "Settings," "Connections," "Find Filwrs," and "REVOKE Access."

The worm quickly spread because of security weaknesses that are too wide penyingkat dimilikin by the site URL.

"This kind of attacks that we see today in the year 2010, the attacks focused on the exploitation of social networking users. It's no longer about getting users to go to dangerous sites," he said.

"In this case, there are not many users of Twitter can do about it, unless they are alert and can somehow determine that the link is dangerous." he said.

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