Twitter Becomes an Attractive Target for Cybercriminals

Kaspersky Lab alerts users to the emergence of a hacker tool called

TwitterNET Builder which can be used to form botnets that are controlled via

Twitter. There are currently two known TwitterNET Builder variants. The first

variant uses malicious commands with static names. The second variant, detected

by Kaspersky Lab, allows users to change the names of the command making it

harder to identify which Twitter accounts are being used to control the botnets.

It takes just a couple of mouse clicks to create malicious code capable of

turning infected computers into zombies, which when joined together form a

botnet. The botnets are then controlled via an account set up with the popular

microblogging service Twitter. Such botnets are subsequently used for the usual

practices of distributing spam, carrying out DDoS attacks, etc. Twitter NET

Builder is freely available and is likely to appeal to hackers of every type,

especially novices.

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