ronjor
August 14th, 2009, 08:18 PM
-{ Quote: "Posted by Brian Prince on August 14, 2009 12:04 AM
It's been a tough week for Twitter. First DDoS attacks. Now Arbor Networks security researcher Jose Nazario has come across something more troublesome - a botnet using Twitter for its command-and-control.
According to Nazario, the botnet uses the micro-blogging service's status messages to communicate to compromised machines. The tweets contain obfuscated links to sites with new commands and executables to download and run." }-Article. (http://securitywatch.eweek.com/web_20/twitter_used_as_botnet_cc.html)
It's been a tough week for Twitter. First DDoS attacks. Now Arbor Networks security researcher Jose Nazario has come across something more troublesome - a botnet using Twitter for its command-and-control.
According to Nazario, the botnet uses the micro-blogging service's status messages to communicate to compromised machines. The tweets contain obfuscated links to sites with new commands and executables to download and run." }-Article. (http://securitywatch.eweek.com/web_20/twitter_used_as_botnet_cc.html)