Koobface Attacks and Twitter

Koobface malware found his way to infect thousands of Twitter users in the last days, increasing of course the number of Twitter updates giving messages like “My home video [url]“. The URL mentioned is listed randomly, all directing the traffic to a Koobface site.

Twitter’s reaction was fast and already suspended most of the users infected to avoid the virus from spreading. TrendMicro blogged about this and is already giving their users the solutions if they were infected.

This is apparently the second attack given by Koobface in Twitter, the first one used only three different TinyURLs with infected users; this malware mutation gave the infection a longer life than the previous one, that also appeared on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hi5, Friendster and LiveJournal.

There’s no question about it, when you are that big, you will always have attackers and damage control will be needed.

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