[nsp-sec] Twitter under attack?

[Scott A. McIntyre]

On Aug 6, 2009, at 19:20 , Chris Morrow wrote:

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> On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Shelton, Steve wrote:
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>> Some of the spammed urls including Facebook and Youtube that were  
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>> here were which suggest the list of victims may be larger than just a
>> few sites.
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> is it pretty clear at this time that this is related to the georgian/ 
> russian events? Should we be reporting that sort of 'cause' up some?

If that helps people stop clicking on the URLs in the spamware which  
is no doubt at least in part (if not entirely) to blame for the extra  
traffic, that might be worthwhile.  As far as I can see so far,  
there's no other malware involved in our customer-base.

Scott