New Worm Could Attack 1000's of Twitter Users

Twittercut website spreads malicious links as page views rapidly increase

Dan Raywood | May 27, 2009
A new worm that could attack thousands of Twitter users has been detected.

PC Tools has detected a new scam that claims to drastically increase a user's Twitter followers by using a website called Twittercut. It takes advantage of the current trend of amassing Twitter followers in order to capture users' Twitter account details and self-propagate.

Twitter users may see a tweet in their stream that reads ‘OMG I just got over 1000 followers today from http://twittercut.com'. Once they click on this, the link takes them to a fraudulent Twitter website requesting their login and password details. It then sends out this tweet to all of their followers and directs users to a dating website, with the aggregate number of views resulting in affiliate revenue.

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