Monday, December 13, 2010

Twitter bird catches the worm (attack that is)

Thanks to the continual ingenuity and subversive mindset of the Scumball Hackers International Team Working Against Democracy and Security (you do the acronym yourself) Twitter can now bring you yet another manually spread infection: The Acai Berry Worm

Amplify’d from mashable.com

WARNING: Acai Berry Twitter Attack Spreading Like Wildfire [UPDATED]

A new Twitter attack advertising acai berries has hijacked thousands of Twitter accounts and turned them into spammers.

The attack is spreading at a rapid pace — within a minute, more than 10,000 tweets related to the attack have popped up on the microblogging service. These tweets link to domains containing “acainews.” We recommend that you don’t click these links.

Read more at mashable.com
 

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