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Mikeyy Worm making Twitter & Tweeple Mad!

by Admin on April 13, 2009

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The new Twitter worm: Mikeyy is making Twitter mad!

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The worm, Mikeyy, spread around the popular site like wildfire as soon as members clicked onto an infected users’ profile.

People’s pages began posting messages promoting the site StalkDaily.com.

The speed with which it spread took the web community by surprise.

Normally worms and viruses require people to click on a link to a different site to get infected.

But this cross site scripting (XSS) attack worked by hiding code inside the “bio” section of members’ pages.

Twitter news service BNO News reported StalkDaily’s 17-year-old owner, Mikeyy Mooney, had claimed responsibility for the attack.

“I did it out of boredom,” he told BNO.

Users who post the following tweets are affected by the worm:

Twitter, hire Mikeyy! (718) 312-8131 :)
RT!! 4th gen #Mikeyy worm on the loose! Click here to protect yourself: http://tinyurl.com/cojc6s
This is all Twitters fault! Don’t blame Mikeyy!!
Twitter, freaking fix this already. >:[ – Mikeyy
This worm is getting out of hand Twitter. – Mikeyy
Twitter, your community is going to be mad at you… – Mikeyy
How TO remove new Mikeyy worm! RT!! http://bit.ly/yCL1s
ALERT!! 4TH GEN MIKEYY WORM, USE NOSCRIPT: http://bit.ly/4ywBID

Don’t open any links from above. Also don’t open the profiles who post such tweets! If you get any more info, please share below.

If you get infected with #mikeyy worm – go to bio, update ALL info & password. Save, clear cache, clear cookies, close browser etc.

Twitter says no passwords, phone numbers, or other sensitive information were compromised as part of this renewed attack.


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