Poor beseiged Twitter users were hit by a new series of attacks on Friday. Subscribers to the popular micro-blogging site received malicious messages from compromised accounts inviting them to visit a pornographic website. The messages, which posed as tweets, tried to tempt users into visiting a site called chatwebcamfree.com …

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Monday 9th March 2009 12:08 GMT Anonymous Coward

fail

No vaginas with razor sharp teeth this time?

Twitter is getting even more boring than it already was, even with users stupid enough to get phished.

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Monday 9th March 2009 13:00 GMT Anonymous Coward

It's also

Being Spammed over at deviantart too.

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Monday 9th March 2009 13:00 GMT Anonymous Coward

Britney

Surely any suggestion that Britney's vag is wider than a foot or so is simply slander?

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Monday 9th March 2009 14:40 GMT Mike Flugennock

@ AC 12:36gmt re: Britney

Actually, I was rather surprised to find out that Britney's kootch _wasn't_ four feet wide, and had no teeth.

Paris, because the Twitter spammers may have had hers confused with Britney's.

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Monday 9th March 2009 15:25 GMT DutchOven

Title

You guys at the register missed the obvious title: "Twits invited to view Twats"

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Monday 9th March 2009 15:34 GMT Anonymous Coward

Malicious messages?

These t(w)eets are relevant to my interests!

Also, damn about time.

Anon, obviously. Only Sarah may know.

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Monday 9th March 2009 15:46 GMT Steve

They need to stop using...

...those stupid tinyurl links, those are phishers delight those are!

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Monday 9th March 2009 20:40 GMT Nicholas Ettel

Security Gnomes

"It's unclear how the compromised accounts were hacked in the first place. Twitter's security gnomes are investigating the attack."

Ahhh so Twitter's security involes imaginary creatures and "magic," then, eh? Sounds about right for such a twatterific waste-of-time website.

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Tuesday 10th March 2009 10:26 GMT Steve Roper

That spamvertised website...

contains two words: "webcam" and "free" which, when occurring in proximity to each other in an email, cause my spam filter to automatically reject it. Gotta love Bayesian analysis!

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