Cybercriminals leveraging social media is now basically a given, especially with users’ current dedication to social media (specifically on social networks). Actually, we’ve reported quite a few instances that prove how cybercriminals used Twitter for their operation, most especially in spamming.

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Twitter Kit Out to Make Twitter a Spammers’ Dream

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For the past 12 hours, over 1000 Twitter accounts have been hacked with an unknown method. The symptoms are always the same; the account is used to broadcast the phrase “Hacked By Turkish Hackers”.

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"Hacked By Turkish Hackers"?

There’s another malware run underway on Twitter. A fairly large pool of fake accounts are sending out messages with popular hashtags and the text “haha this is the funniest video ive ever seen”. People see these messages when they look for trending topics in Twitter.

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Twitter attack

David Beckham loves me! Well, love might be too strong a word since we’ve never actually met in real life, but I can confirm he at least is showing interest—he subscribed to my Twitter account this morning. At first I wasn’t sure if it really was David, but the photo sure looked like him.

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Becks Loves Me

SC Magazine (US) is hosting security blog awards next week at RSA Conference 2010 and our own Mikko Hypponen is among the nominees in the Five to Follow on Twitter category. Mikko decided to take a look at ” this Twitter thingy ” last year and has now posted over 900 tweets with more than 5,600 followers. Here’s an example of the type of thing you might find from his feed

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SC Magazine’s Five to Follow

I’ve been playing with Twitter’s Goodies this afternoon.

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Twittering Widgets

UPDATE : I was asked to talk to Channel 4 news in the UK about this incident this evening and they have been good enough to share the full content of my interview and a subsequent interview on the same subject with Tim Stevens from King’s College London.

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Twitter (not) hacked by Iranian Cyber Army

How to Survive a Zombie Attack, by Acey Duecy   2009 has been a notable year for malware and malicious online activity for a number of reasons and several of them relate to what is known as botnets . A zombie, or a bot, is a PC infected by malware that brings it under the remote control of a criminal.

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2010 – Year of the Zombie Cloud?

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