Twitter has become the victim of another worm in the past day or so. This isn’t the first worm to exploit Twitter with the ‘mikeyy’ worm attacking the popular social website earlier this year. While the ‘mikeyy’ worm was more a nuisance than a malicious attack, the new worm is here to steal your Twitter login details and further ‘infect’ the website. The good news is, Twitter is aware and is working on it.

So what exactly makes this new worm so meticulous?

The worm sends out direct messages (known as DMs) containing a link to replica of the Twitter website. The DM acts as a persuasion tactic along the lines of “Have you seen this…” inducing you to login to the replica website. By doing this, the hackers are able to steal your login details.

With the newly acquired details, more of these DMs will be sent out under the stolen accounts so it looks like legitimate users are sending the message out making the DM seem more authentic.

What’s the moral?

DON’T CLICK ON THE LINK and delete any DMs asking you to login to the replica version of Twitter. These links may even come under the disguise your own friends and followers so take extra care when clicking links sent from friends.

But I’ve clicked the link and signed in! What do I do?!

Quite simple, change your password. Delete any of the DMs that may have been sent out on your account and also any malicious DMs you have received. If you can’t login, reset the password and contact Twitter Support.

Let’s hope now it’s a case of the early bird catches the worm (Now where’s that coat of mine…?).