Worm Twitter

The Twitter account owner should be careful when chatting in cyberspace, because of Kaspersky Lab, developer of content security and computer threat management solutions, has indicated a 'worm Twitter' that utilizes social media.

Cata worms work by exploiting the new Twitter service penyingkat URLs or links from Google, the goo.gl. Penyingkat URLs that are used in micro-blogging system, a system that also applied to Twitter. It's just a shortened link can threaten computer security, since the text was shortened URLs are often unclear and the user does not know its contents. As a result the owners account just to access sites that have been infected with viruses or other threats.

Usually a newly discovered worm Twitter Twitter user was directed to a page of sites that provide fake antivirus called 'Security Shield'. Pages that use code that is disguised techniques including RSA cryptography implemented in JavaScript. Nicolas Brulez, malware researcher at Kaspersky Lab, found that when Twitter users are in the site, users will receive a warning that the computer will run applications that are suspicious.

The warning urging users to remove all threat of their computer and download a fake antivirus. Consequently after diundug program will cause the infected computer malware. Experts from Kaspersky Lab, as reported in the press release, has found thousands pesar Twitter who continue to spread the worm. Unfortunately, Kapersky did not specify what harm could be caused by the latest worm.