Comments on: Twitter Worm on the Loose… Again. http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300390/2009/10/15/twitter-worm-on-the-loose-again/ Columbia Business Times Blogs Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:05:13 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Joe http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300390/2009/10/15/twitter-worm-on-the-loose-again/comment-page-1/#comment-676 Joe Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:28:44 +0000 http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/?p=300390#comment-676 This "malware" is also spreading on Facebook. The "hook" is that people are so excited to see themselves in a video, they go ahead and install the "needed software" (which is actually letting the malware install itself). This is a case of a security flaw being between the keyboard and the chair :-) More about Koobface: http://blog.trendmicro.com/8-things-you-probably-didn%E2%80%99t-know-about-koobface/ This “malware” is also spreading on Facebook. The “hook” is that people are so excited to see themselves in a video, they go ahead and install the “needed software” (which is actually letting the malware install itself). This is a case of a security flaw being between the keyboard and the chair :-)

More about Koobface:
http://blog.trendmicro.com/8-things-you-probably-didn%E2%80%99t-know-about-koobface/

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