Spam and scams have continued to flow from the fallout of last week's DDoS against Twitter. The attack, which took the micro-blogging service offline for around two hours on Thursday, and reduced service levels for a much longer time afterwards, (see here and here), also affected Facebook, LiveJournal and other sites. The …

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Monday 10th August 2009 12:48 GMT Winkypop

Cyxymu ?

Sounds like some dodgy Welsh spammer?

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Monday 10th August 2009 13:57 GMT Winkypop

Spam away

They're only Twitter Twatters and FarceBookers anyway!

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Monday 10th August 2009 13:57 GMT Duckorange

@winkypop

Cyxymu is a (bad) Latinised rendering of the Cyrillic word Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia.

So there.

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Monday 10th August 2009 15:51 GMT Anonymous Coward

I wonder...

...why there's an "Utterly terrible" rating available, when every time you assign it to a Twitter article it is silently removed. Why not only offer the positive voting options, if that's what you want?

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Monday 10th August 2009 15:51 GMT Anonymous Coward

There's no mystery...

The botnet responsible will undoubtedly be under the control of the RBN, which in turn is oft at the disposal of the Kremlin.

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Monday 10th August 2009 15:51 GMT Scott Broukell

@winkypop & Duckorange

we have cars 'ere as well !

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Monday 10th August 2009 15:51 GMT OnSeeker

OnSeeker opinion :P

And all this happen because of a lack of security on the computers affected! I personally don't get spam cause I'm using BitDefender! I recommend it to those who became zombies for the spam bot :))

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Monday 10th August 2009 23:44 GMT Anonymous Coward

I have only sent a one twitter...

"241 offer on Tesco spagbol" and now I'm Cyxymu's bitch. Is it really worth it. 2 shite spaghetti bolognese's for £1.69. Sigh.

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