Twitter hit by new goo.gl worm
A new worm is spreading on Twitter, according to a flood of reports circulating on the micro-blogging network this morning.
A number of users report that they've received spam messages from friends that included a web link using Google's goo.gl URL shortening service. Hovering over the malicious shortened link reveals that it leads to a URL ending with 'm28sx.html'.
Users are warned not to click on the link. Messages repeating the malicious link are sent from the account of the affected user to Twitterers on their follow list. Last December, Twitter users were hit by the outbreak of another worm, also using Google's goo.gl URL shortening service.
