Spammers have created 750 accounts on Twitter which are being
used to lure users to websites containing explicit sexual
content.
According to IT security company
Sophos, the messages, which
are being spammed out as Tweets, resemble the following: "hey!
23/Female. Come chat with me on my webcam thingy here" followed by
a link to the Chatwebcamfree website."
Sophos found that the index page of this website serves up
obfuscated JavaScript that loads a variety of pornographic adverts
and contains a web form directed to a site called
eroticgateway.com.
"If a hacker has managed to ascertain your Twitter password then
there is a chance that they may have compromised your system in
other ways too," warned Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant
at Sophos.
"We are seeing more and more attacks from spammers, phishers,
malware authors, scammers and identity thieves against users of
social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook - similar
adult webcam messages were spotted on Facebook just last month.
These are not just proof-of-concept attacks in controlled
conditions - they are everyday full-blooded assaults making money
out of real people," he said.
