Twitter was hit with its first worm attack yesterday.
Various reports said that you users could become infected by visiting a certain Twitter profile page, while others said that you could only be infected by visiting StalkDaily.
The accounts affected would then send out this message:
Hey everyone, join www. StalkDaily. com. It’s a site like Twitter but with pictures, videos, and so much more!
In fact, you CAN be affected just by visiting infected profiles on Twitter.
Luckily, the StalkDaily Worm is very easy to eradicate. Just ensure that the URL to your Twitter profile is accurate.
Twitter has since blocked the worm. They are currently recommending that you your password.
If you have been locked out of your acct due to the StalkDaily issue, pls do a p/w reset; we may have reset your p/w for safety.
Mickeyy Money from StalkDaily has claimed responsibility for the attack:
I am the person who coded the XSS which then acted as a worm when it auto updated a users profile and status, which then infected other users who viewed their profile. I did this out of boredom, to be honest. I usually like to find vulnerabilities within websites and try not to cause too much damage, but start a worm or something to give the developers an insight on the problem and while doing so, promoting myself or my website.
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