Symantec has made warnings about the worm mass mails that came with an attachment disguised as invititation from Twitter. “The message will be displayed as such invitation directly from Twitter. But, after all, the message is not the same as legitimate messages from Twitter, because there is no invitation URL in the message body. In addition, users will see the attachment appear in the format. Zip file similar to the invitation card (invitation cards). “Symantec said in a blog party official (forums2.symantec.com).
According to Symantec, the name of an attachment in an email message is called “Invite Card.zip” and Symantec identified as W32.Ackantta.B @ mm, a worm that is for Windows computers. Symantec added that the worm in an e-card, which had found in February. W32.Ackantta.B @ mm worm will have the address of a PC infected by copying itself in removable drives and share folders.
Meanwhile, there also are flooding Twitter spammers with a phone message on Iran, and news about the iPhone 3.0 operating system updates. Spammers have created a fake Twitter account and post Twitter messages that are link to the product of men in a website. Twitter messages are called “iPhone OS 3.0 Just Launched. Here are 20 Things To Do With It”, and at the sender reads posted from Twitter account that seemed legitimate or likely already been hacked.
Twitter spammers are joined to complete the popularity of Apple’s iPhone 3.0 and in the presidential elections in Iran. For example, a message from spammers posting titled “Mousavi trend? Omg Stephen Colbert woman.earned hit a $ 2,612 thanks to this to this.”, Where Mir Hossein Mousavi is a reformist politician who lost the election. In addition, according to researchers from Trend Micro, Rik Ferguson, spammers also often hashtag popular member sign # followed by a keyword in the inbox messages dakam user.
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