Twitter Hit by SQL Injection Attacks
The ever present Ruby-based micro-blogging platform, Twitter has again been subject to attack by malware and is so far determined to have affected 20,000 sites. The company has blocked access to infected accounts and are doing their best to restore service after they have been notified of the seemingly innocent link called the “Best Video” link. The link re-directed people to malware downloading sites that had an infected PDF file releasing several exploits thus making the system vulnerable to attack.
This is the second biggest attack to the growing social networking site and they have again been caught off guard with the infection getting people the common annoying pop-ups that says their computers were infected by some sort of malware. The warning came from Websense Security Labs, that led to the disabling of known infected sites.
The infection is under control and the company is doing damage control, repairing account information with them assuring their many users that no private data was lost. The new infection has been determined to be different from the past Gumblar attack but security experts are saying that if left unchecked, the exploits can be used for drive-by hacking incidents.