Twitter assault acainews drowns program in berry trash

If you believe the hype, acai berries are magic fruits, with tons of antioxidant benefits. Researchers think these amounts to mere advertising trash, even so – and Twitter customers would surely agree. Mashable accounts that thousands of Twitter users have suffered through a new ad spam attack called "acainews". Conservative estimates place the number of not authorized zombie tweets having sprung from acainews attacks to be a minimum of 10,000. This might require Twitter to take out a huge cash advance to repair this before they lose clients.

Twitter customers have to avoid hyperlinks for acainews

Tweets that link to domains that have the phrase "acainews" in them are where a lot of the Twitter advertising spam comes from. While the exact mechanism through which the acai berry Twitter worm travels from one computer to the next is currently unclear, users are advised to keep away from clicking any link that leads to an acainews-related domain. The fastest moving Twitter assault is what the acainews is being called.

acai berry may have come from Gawker

Many assumed that the Twitter accounts had been jeopardized. That was the first speculation. Mashable spoke to the head of Twitter's Trust and Safety team, Del Harvey, who explained that a recent incident where the Gawker blog was hacked is "very likely" to be connected to the acainews worm. Data ended up exposed from 1.3 million Gawker accounts. These Gawker accounts are connected to Twitter accounts a lot of the time. Thus, Harvey advises all Twitter users who have linked their account to the Gawker blog to change their Twitter password immediately.

Code not really involved with account compromise

Damon Cortesi of TweetStats told Mashable that acainews does not appear to be transferring harmful code directly to computers. The Twitter accounts in question may have simply been compromised when Gawker was hacked. You’ve enough reason to stay from acainews now. Mix all this information with the belief that "no" was what Oprah herself said to acai berries.

Articles cited

Mashable

mashable.com/2010/12/13/acai-berry-twitter-worm-warning/

Web MD

webmd.com/diet/guide/acai-berries-and-acai-berry-juice-what-are-the-health-benefits

Oprah and Dr. Oz say ‘no’ to acai berries

youtube.com/watch?v=eN2Vcf0tiw8