A currently ongoing malware attack across Twitter is abusing the momentum offered by Twitter’s trending topics in order to trick users into visiting bogus exclusive video sites and infect them with malware.
The campaign, spreading since last week, is relying on a growing number of automatically registered bogus Twitter accounts, which combine trending topics and hashtags with custom messages and pre-defined Tinyurl links, all leading to identical fake codec which is droping three different malware samples. Read the full story [zdnet.com]
