Security measures at micro blogging website Twitter have been exposed again after Twitter users were hit with yet another worm over the weekend.
This time, the tweets came bearing the message “WTF” with a link in tow. Clicking on the link automatically generated a post from the victim with a pornographic message.
Though Sophos did not know how many users were impacted, Sophos Senior Security Analyst Beth Jones said it was not “nearly as widespread” as last week’s onMouseOver worms, which affected hundreds of thousands of Twitter users.
In that case, a cross-site scripting vulnerability was exploited by various people to send out multiple worms that among other things redirected users to porn sites.
As in that incident, the most recent attack snared some high-profile Twitter users, including blogger Robert Scoble.
“Chances are that the reason why this attack spread so speedily is that people were curious to find out what they would find at the end of a link only described as ‘WTF’,” Cluley blogged.
Twitter reported 26 September that the malicious link is disabled and that the exploit has been fixed.
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