The Importance of Strong Passwords on Social Media
Last Tuesday, April 23, the Twitter account of the Associated Press news agency was hacked and sent out a hoax tweet reporting that President Barack Obama had been injured by an explosion in the White House. Within seconds, Wall Street was in panic mode and US stock plunged. Situations like this illustrate once again the [...]
Twitter, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft… who is left?
If we had to elaborate a list with the top tech companies who have being hacked in the last weeks, we should include all the ones in the title of this blog post, and maybe a few more cases we are still not aware of. The first one was Twitter. On February 1st Twitter published [...]
Sex, lies and Twitter
Last week we got a new follower in Twitter, Alena Edwards: No tweets so far, the only information about “her” is the message in her profile, where she’s looking for funny guys and gives us a link. Probably it is a spammer, but instead of tweeting links just put the spam link in the profile [...]
Twitter used for Rogueware Distribution
Cyber criminals are using social media more frequently to distribute their malicious creations. Pft! As if Blackhat SEO, fake advertisements, and hacked websites weren’t enough?! Today we’ll take a look at a Rogueware campaign using Twitter for distribution. Several fake profiles (and compromised ones too) started tweeting “a very good antivirus” followed by a shortened [...]
Dont Get Caught by the Grinch on Twitter
Last year we documented the very first trending topic attack on Twitter. The attack is similar to a Blackhat SEO campaign, where criminals leverage the many hot topics discussed on the Internet in order to position their malware campaigns in highly visible places on Twitter. Earlier today we noticed over 300 Twitter accounts targeting various [...]
Twitter used to distribute malware
A new malware has started to spread via the social network Twitter. The message that is being used is: haha this is the funniest video ive EVER SEEN! and contains a link to a video. Cybercrooks have managed so that this message obtains good positions in Twitter section known as “Trending topicsâ€, which contains the [...]
Twitter hacked on accident by Turkish man
This morning I logged into my twitter account and noticed something strange. My Twitter follower count moved from over 5500 followers to zero instantaneously between reloads!  A Turkish man accidentally discovered a bug in Twitter after tweeting about his favorite band “Accept.” By issuing the tweet, “accept pwnz,” he was able to exploit a bug [...]
