Due to Twitter’s announcement regarding outbound links, third party developers were forced to notify their users of how the changes would effect their own software. Naturally, cyber criminals wasted no time trying to exploit this activity sending out their own tweets with the exact same content onling their URLs contained links to malacious software diguised as a TweetDeck installer named tweetdeck-08302010.exe.
TweetDeck was quick to warn their users of the threat, and the irony is ofcourse this is the type of behaviour Twitter is trying to combat with the announced changes.
[Source: Trend Labs]