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30-06-2010, 05:26 PM
For the past 12 hours, over 1000 Twitter accounts have been hacked with an unknown method.
The symptoms are always the same; the account is used to broadcast the phrase "Hacked By Turkish Hackers".
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/hbth.png (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Hacked+By+Turkish+Hackers)
Here's a sample search via search.twitter.com (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Hacked+By+Turkish+Hackers).
Although the exploit mechanism is unclear, most of the compromised accounts seem to belong to Israeli Twitter users.
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/hbth2.png
Perhaps there's a Twitter phishing run in Hebrew underway?
On 21/06/10 At 07:58 PM
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The symptoms are always the same; the account is used to broadcast the phrase "Hacked By Turkish Hackers".
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/hbth.png (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Hacked+By+Turkish+Hackers)
Here's a sample search via search.twitter.com (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Hacked+By+Turkish+Hackers).
Although the exploit mechanism is unclear, most of the compromised accounts seem to belong to Israeli Twitter users.
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/hbth2.png
Perhaps there's a Twitter phishing run in Hebrew underway?
On 21/06/10 At 07:58 PM
**Hidden Content: Check the thread to see hidden data.**