Monday, April 13, 2009

Trouble in Twitterville

The malicious worm affecting Twitter over the weekend has now mutated and continues to invade the popular micro-blogging network. Although Twitter is taking action against the problem, security analysts fear that further mutations of the worm will continue to wreak havoc on the network over the week.
The worm, appearing as "" or "StalkDaily", was created by the 17-year-old Mike Mooney "out of boredom" and is now generating thousands of spam messages containing the word "Mikeyy". This is the fourth attack by the worm in the last four days, which sends Twitter messages from infected accounts, without the owners' knowledge.
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