Cybercriminals target Twitter, spread thousands of exploits and malware serving tweets

Reblogged from Webroot Threat Blog - Internet Security Threat Updates from Around the World:

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By Dancho Danchev

Twitter users, beware!

Over the past several days, cybercriminals have been persistently spamvertising thousands of exploits and malware serving links across the most popular micro blogging service. Upon clicking on the clicks, users are exposed to the exploits served by the Black Hole web malware exploitation kit.

What's so special about this campaign? What's the detection rate of the malware it drops?

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Another example of how Twitter is failing to deal with spammers in their quest to embrace as much "content" as possible?

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