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Title: Twitter used as a hacking tool Post by: Alex on August 27, 2009, 08:09:47 AM Twitter used as a hacking tool
Mysterious accounts seem to be appearing all over the popular Twitter micro-blogging website. The suspicious accounts appear to be posting complete gibberish, when in reality are posting executable commands that are downloading malware to victims computers. Hackers have always longed to find new ways to hide their tracks and make attacks harder to see coming, but now hackers have turned to Twitter to become the host of a serious of attacks against users. Hackers have managed to form a botnet using Twitter as a way to control compromised PCs. Read full story... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/9hnq7adEOPc/twitter-used-as-a-hacking-tool |