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Graham Cluley works for Sophos as a Senior Technology Consultant. You can read his full blog at http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc or visit his personal website at http://www.grahamcluley.com.
In a previous life he used to write text adventure games such as "Humbug" and "Jacaranda Jim". You can follow Graham on Twitter via @gcluley
Saturday 7 March 2009, 12:30 AM
Twitter users swamped by adult webcam spam messages
Hundreds of Twitter users have been hit by another attack, with messages being sent from compromised accounts trying to drive traffic to a pornographic website.
The messages which say "hey! 23/Female. Come chat with me on my webcam thingy here www.chatwebcamfree.com" are being spammed out as Tweets.
However, the index page of that website serves up obfuscated JavaScript that loads a variety of adult X-rated adverts.
Any Twitter users who find that they have unwittingly posted the message would be wise to change their Twitter password immediately. Furthermore, if you use that password on any other non-Twitter account then you must also change those passwords too (please *don't* make it the same as your new Twitter password.
Much more information, including images of the offending messages and the adult webcam website, can be found on Graham Cluley's blog on the Sophos website.
The messages which say "hey! 23/Female. Come chat with me on my webcam thingy here www.chatwebcamfree.com" are being spammed out as Tweets.
However, the index page of that website serves up obfuscated JavaScript that loads a variety of adult X-rated adverts.
Any Twitter users who find that they have unwittingly posted the message would be wise to change their Twitter password immediately. Furthermore, if you use that password on any other non-Twitter account then you must also change those passwords too (please *don't* make it the same as your new Twitter password.
Much more information, including images of the offending messages and the adult webcam website, can be found on Graham Cluley's blog on the Sophos website.
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