Threatpost News Wrap #2: Drive-by malware, Twitter attacks

Threatpost editors Ryan Naraine and Dennis Fisher look at the latest security news headlines and dig deeper into the latest wave of drive-by download infections and scareware attacks on Twitter. Download SHOW NOTES Cybercriminals hijack Twitter trending topics to serve malware Subscribe to the Ne...

The Twitter worm that isn't

By Roel Schouwenberg On Saturday an alert went out about a new Twitter worm. Could this have been another XSS-Worm? Upon clicking the link users would see the following: However that’s not all that happens. Covertly a connection is made to another server that will result in a malicious PDF being...