Chinese Twitter rival, Sina Weibo hit with worm attacks
A popular Twitter-like service in China with 140 million users was hit by a worm earlier this week that resembles past attacks that infected Twitter and MySpace, according to a security analyst.
Sina Weibo, a microblog service in China, said the worm first appeared on Tuesday night. Affected posts displayed a malicious link with enticing messages like "Move a woman's heart with 100 lines of poetry" or "Software to listen to other people's phones." When the link was clicked, the user's own account would repost and send out private messages circulating the malicious link again.
Sina reported in a post to users on Wednesday that the worm had been stopped on the same night at 9:25 p.m. The problem stemmed from a flaw in the web pages that the worm could exploit.
