San Francisco (ip-192.com): Criminals are using dummy Twitter accounts to spread links to malware infected websites, according to an F-secure labs blog. The tactic seems to be the same that corrupted advertising on the New York Times website recently.
Intrusive pop-ups display bogus warnings that a user’s computer is infected with a malicious virus. The intrusive program then tries to rush the user into the purchase of fake anti-virus software. If users go ahead and purchases and installs the fake antivirus software, the computer become a zombie computer. Furthermore, the user has revealed his credit card information to the cyber-criminals.
While Twitter is using to Captcha technology to prevent automated attempts to create new accounts, F-secure labs speculates that the criminals did either develop a way to exploit a weakness in the Captcha technology, or they have enlisted the help of cheap human labor in third-world countries to break the code for each new Twitter account.
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