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Jan 21, 2011

Goo.gl under attack on Twitter

This has been the case ever since December, 14th 2009. As a routine, we publish a post, quickly ping Feedburner and we get our feed items automatically published in our Twitter accounts using the Google URL shortener at goo.gl.



The Breaking News
"A new worm is posting links on Twitter user accounts that lead to a fake antivirus site." Online security and Sophos and Kaspersky report.

The Bad News
The worm is using Google URL shortener goo.gl to spread this link :(
"If you follow the link, you will land on a site that advertises a rouge antivirus solution called 'Security Shield'. This 'antivirus is in fact malware which should fortunately be detected (Sophos detects it as Troj/FakeAV-CMG) as such by popular antivirus solution."


What has Twitter done in reaction
The Twitter Safety account is on the move. An update claims:
"Twitter is working to remove the malware links and reset passwords on compromised accounts."


My question
Do you think this is going to affect our Feedburner feed updates to our respective Twitter accounts?

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