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Dem lawmaker attacked by Twitter virus
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was hit by a Twitter virus on Monday that send affected users' Twitter followers harmful messages.
Giffords is the one of the only lawmakers to be subject to an attack. Rep. Mary Fallin (R-Okla.) was hit by the last round of attacks last month.
Mashable, a popular social media blog, is reporting that scammers today launched a phishing scam. Such a scam hacks users' accounts and sends out "direct messages" to followers containing links that, should a follower click them, would also hack their account. Similar attacks were sent out in different forms in September and October.
@spam looks like twitter having some technical difficulties today. And only two days after end of Nat’l Cyber Security Month!
sorry to those that got fake messages
The @spam account to which the lawmaker replied is run by Twitter to keep track of scams on the microblogging service.
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