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Another day, another twitter virus...

anon@indymedia.org (JimDog) | 27.09.2010 19:54

Another malicious worm hit Twitter over the weekend, days after the micro-blogging site reached near-meltdown from a technically similar attack.

This time around the danger came from clicking links contained in micro-blogging messages beginning "WTF [URL]". Last week's more serious onMouseOver problem struck when users moved their mouse cursor over an infected tweet. These messages contained hidden JavaScript code that exploited a cross-site scripting problem - in the case of the WTF worm a CSRF (cross-site request forgery) technique is in play.


anon@indymedia.org (JimDog)
- Original article on IMC Northern England: http://northern.indymedia.org/other_medias/971