a new virus threat to users of the micro-blogging service Twitter . The pest spreads via malicious links in tweets that with Google's service Goo.gl were shortened. The report shows that URLs are like "http://goo.gl/od0az" and "http://goo.gl/R7f68" especially on Twitters mobile site initially appeared. The virus redirect victims to malicious Web sites continue his writing Techtweet . The Tweets with links would be manipulated via this term accounts sent for the purpose. Some messages also came from legitimate accounts that hackers had apparently taken over.

Twitter users are currently warn each other about to click on links that might spread the pest. Users, a mobile phone to access on Twitter should especially careful with seemingly suspicious short-handle URLs. According to source Twitter is aware of the virus. The company oversee the development of the problem and have also started to reset the passwords of affected users.

Short URLs have repeatedly risk for users of Twitter and other sites is one, since it is the target of a link to disguise itself . They are popular among cyber criminals to users to guide to Web sites that host the malware. Some of the short url services such as TinyURL , offer a preview function that may easily be checked with links before they are clicked. There are also browser extensions , which can take on this task. In addition, some anti-virus solutions in a position to detect malicious URLs to short.