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[Peaches]

June 1, 2009 12:23 PM PDT
'Best Video' scam on Twitter dropped malware
by Elinor Mills

"Twitter users were hit with another attack over the weekend featuring tweets reading "Best Video" and a link to a Web site that downloads malware, a security firm said on Monday.

The Web site, with a .ru (Russia) domain, purports to show an embedded YouTube video. Instead, the page downloads a malicious PDF that contains a "flurry of exploits" and if successful downloads fraudware that displays a fake security warning to try to get people to pay money, according to Kaspersky's Viruslist.com blog.

Contrary to earlier reports that the attack was a worm, the Kaspersky blog post speculates that the attackers were using accounts stolen in a phishing attack about a week ago. "

Read more plus screenshot at CNET - http://news.cnet.com/security/

and read at PCworld - http://www.pcworld.com/article/165851/twitter_best_video_scam_attacks_pcs.html

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