The Twitter Website Gets Hit by Javascript Exploit/Bug
This morning around 9AM Eastern time (and fixed within ~30 minutes), Twitter had a pretty serious javascript bug where any link you would mouse-over would automatically make you tweet spam links or make other tweets just big blocks of color shown below. Also if you were to mouseover links on the twitter toolbar it retweets the javascript exploit and attempts to send a Direct Message. As mentioned, this bug has been fixed already, but the damage has been done as users are given yet another reason to avoid using the twitter.com website and moving to 3rd party applications.
Twitter is seriously screwed up at the moment, thanks to a new Javascript exploit that’s currently spreading like wildfire across the service. Visitors of Twitter’s website are inadvertently retweet spam and porn to their followers, just by hovering over tweets. The exploit takes advantage of the Javascript function onMouseOver, enticing users with colorful blocks of text”rainbow tweets”and then retweeting those messages automatically when the block is moused over. In some cases the links launch pop up windows, in others users are being directed to spam and porn sites.
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