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Twitter Shuts Down Second Worm In A Week

posted onSeptember 27, 2010
by hitbsecnews

Twitter shut down the second worm in less than a week over the weekend, this one spreading an attack that blasted pornographic tweets about goats to other users after enticing them with the subject "WTF."

The worm attempts to lure users with the subject "WTF" followed by the malicious link. Once they click, users are taken to a blank Web page that contains malicious code using a cross-site request forgery. The malware then automatically sends out vulgar tweets to Twitter from the user's account.

"Chances are that the reason why this attack spread so speedily is that people were curious to find out what they would find at the end of the link only described as "WTF," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at U.K.-based Sophos, in a blog post.

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