Fake Micro-blogging Invitations Dropping W32.Ackantta.B@mm Worm
Popular social networking and micro-blogging websites have always attracted not only you and me, but also a whole bunch of cyber criminals aiming to spread their malicious activities on a mass scale. Two weeks ago everybody was concerned about massive attacks on Twitter - a huge micro-blogging site - trying to steal user's credentials and infect user's system with rogueware. It seems that these types of attacks have proven to profitable as hackers have now started a new wave of malicious attacks on Twitter... This time with the aim to spread the mass-mailing W32.Ackantta.B@mm worm.
How does this attack take place, and what should everyone pay attention to? Everything starts with a spam message claiming to be an invitation to Twitter. The message is purportedly being sent from invitations@twitter.com and comes with the subject line "Your friend invited you to twitter!" It really seems that the email comes from a Twitter account. However, legitimate Twitter messages usually come with an invitation URL in the body of the message. And in this case no URLs are given at all.
