Malicious tweets link to fake TweetDeck update

Twitter resets passwords for accounts that appear to have been hacked.

Twitter

users who recently clicked on links in tweets urging them to upgrade their version of

TweetDeck

– the popular desktop software used to read and post on

Twitter

– may have found themselves infected with a trojan.

Many of the tweets, which are believed to have been posted from compromised accounts, referred to the fact that Monday was a public holiday in the UK, leading to speculation that those behind the attack may be based in the UK.

Twitter

reacted promptly to the malicious tweets, by

resetting

the passwords of the accounts they believed had been hacked.

TweetDeck

, in the meantime,

urged

its users to always check the product’s official website for updates.

More at

The Register


here

, with comments from

Sophos

‘s Graham Cluley

here

.

Posted on 01 September 2010 by

Virus Bulletin