A currently ongoing malware attack across Twitter is abusing the momentum offered by Twitter s trending topics in order to trick users into visiting bogus exclusive video sites and infect them with malware. The campaign, spreading since last week, is relying on a growing number of automatically registered bogus Twitter accounts, which combine trending topics and hashtags with custom messages and pre-defined Tinyurl links, all leading to identical fake codec which is droping three different malware samples. Researchers have spotted notable code overlap between the Sunburst backdoor and a known Turla weapon.
Source: https://threatpost.com/cybercriminals-hijack-twitter-trending-topics-serve-malware-060909/72725/