Hundreds of Twitter users have been hit by another attack on the popular micro-blogging site, with messages being sent from compromised accounts trying to drive traffic to a pornographic website.
The messages which say
hey! 23/Female. Come chat with me on my webcam thingy here www.chatwebcamfree.com
are being spammed out as Tweets.
However, the index page of that website serves up obfuscated JavaScript that loads a variety of pornographic adverts and contains a web form directed to a site called eroticgateway.com.
Clearly, if a hacker has managed to ascertain your Twitter password there is a chance that they may have also compromised your system in other ways too.
Any Twitter users who find that they have unwittingly posted the message would be wise to change their Twitter password immediately. Furthermore, if you use that password on any other non-Twitter account then you must also change those passwords too (please *don’t* make it the same…
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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