Twitter DMs from your friends can lead to Facebook video malware attack

Have you received a Twitter message from an online friend, suggesting you have been captured in a Facebook video?

A number of Naked Security readers have been in touch in recent days regarding a variety of direct messages that have been spammed out from compromised Twitter accounts.

The aim of the messages? To trick the unwary into clicking on a link.. and ultimately infect computers.

Here is one example…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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