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Twitter has reset passwords for accounts that have begun to link the promotion of fake anti-virus software in an attack, the Google Web address shortening service to hide the links were used to distribute goal.
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Links from Google reducer URL goo.gl "bounce through a series of URL redirection before landing on an area of high-level Ukraine is then led to an IP address with other fraud by hidden anti-virus software, Kaspersky wrote Nicolas Burn Lab on a corporate blog.
Landing on the victims of fake antivirus software are invited to scan their computer. If they approve the analysis, asking the site if they want to eliminate risks to their computer: To download a fake security program called "Safety Shield."
Fake anti-virus programs will remain a widespread problem on the Internet, with hundreds of variations. Applications targeted Windows users and programs are often installed by exploiting vulnerabilities in software on a computer. Once installed, Badger, applications users to pay a full version of the program. Many programs are completely ineffective in removing Malware is a computer.
Del Harvey, head of trust and safety team Twitter, wrote in his Twitter account that "we try to remove the links to malware and reset passwords on compromised accounts."
"Do you have a link to a page you goo.gl the request for the installation done" Safety Shield "Rogue AV?" She wrote. "It's malware. Not."
Although Burn with worm attack, which said the spreads between the accounts, Harvey, the question is not related to a worm implies classifiable.
If the problem does not spread from Twitter users, the question of how the attack began throwing.
One possibility is that it is connected to an attack on Gawker Media in December. In this incident, the e-mail address and password for registered users of the company websites and media assistants have been stolen by a group called Gnosis. Twitter has seen a number of spam from the Gawker hack, because it is believed that many users use the same password for sites that affected their Twitter accounts.
