Spring break is here, and, apparently,
Twitter had a little too much fun over the weekend, waking up with a couple of nasty bugs. Thankfully, if the pieces of malware that made the Twitter rounds this weekend were STDs, they would be crabs -- annoying, but curable, and not particularly dangerous.
The first attack came Saturday, originating with a couple of accounts specifically created to spread the StalkDaily worm. By simply visiting an infected profile, a user would find her account hijacked and sending automated Tweets with a link to a Twitter-like service called StalkDaily. By the end of the day,
Twitter had cleaned up most of the infected profiles, had deleted the offending messages, and had apparently plugged the
security hole that allowed the exploit.
Then, on Sunday morning, a second attack hit, taking advantage of the same flaw. Oops. The new worm, called Mikeyy, simply sent out automated messages containing the word "Mikeyy," and mocked Twitter's inability to fix its vulnerability. Mikeyy spread even faster than the StalkDaily worm, and, in no time, people's Twitter feeds were clogged with messages such as, "Twitter please fix this, regards Mikeyy" and "Man, Twitter can't fix sh*t. Mikeyy owns. :)."