Malicious tweets link to fake TweetDeck update
Twitter resets passwords for accounts that appear to have been hacked.
Twitter users who recently clicked on links in tweets urging them to upgrade their
version of TweetDeck - the popular desktop software used to read and post
on Twitter - may have found themselves infected with a trojan.
Many of the tweets, which are believed to have been posted from
compromised accounts, referred to the fact that Monday was a public
holiday in the UK, leading to speculation that those behind the attack
may be based in the UK.
Twitter reacted promptly to the malicious tweets, by resetting the
passwords of the accounts they believed had been hacked.
TweetDeck, in the meantime, urged
its users to always check the product's official website for updates.
More at The Register here,
with comments from Sophos's Graham Cluley here.
01 September 2010
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