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Scareware Scammers Hijack Twitter Trending Topics

Security researchers are reporting on an ongoing scareware serving campaign abusing the popular micro-blogging service Twitter. Hundreds of tweets using four different URL shortening services are currently spammed through the automatically registered Twitter accounts, relying on a pseudo-random text generation using Twitter s trending topics. Read the full story on Twitter.com/scareware-driven-by-scare.com: Twitter is being targeted by an ongoing campaign of spam.com users to use the site.com.com.

Source: https://threatpost.com/scareware-scammers-hijack-twitter-trending-topics-092309/72281/

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