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Article: Social Network Sites Targeted by Viruses - Comment.
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- PR Newswire Europe
- Article date:
- August 6, 2008
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LONDON, August 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Twitter, the micro blogging site has become the latest target for cyber criminals, intent on stealing data (http://www.tinyurl.com/5rzu28). Social networks are beginning to prove a fertile environment for hackers.
According to antiviral firm, Kaspersky, a fake, malicious Twitter profile has been spotted. It announces a link to pornographic video but instead downloads a fake version of Adobe Flash, which installs programs capable of stealing data.
The attack is believed to be the first to target Twitter.
The language, the servers used to download the Trojans and email addresses used to collect the stolen data point to a ...
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