A second twitter worm began circulating Twitter on Sunday, with responsibility being claimed by a teenager.
Michael “Mikeyy” Mooney, has taken credit for the creation of a second variation of a worm that hit micro-blogging service Twitter, less than a full day after the first StalkDaily worm infected multiple Twitter accounts. Luckily Twitter managed to plug the security holes that were being exploited by both variants of the StalkDaily worm fairly rapidly.
Michale Mooney, a 17-year-old from Brooklyn, claimed responsibility after an interview with CNET. He says he created the worm out of boredom.
“I thought about it later and basically did it because I was bored”
Luckily Twitter stated that no personal information had been revealed as a result of the worm, which fits directly in with “Mikeyy”‘s persona, who claimed that his worms aren’t harmful in nature. This is his latest creation stemming from around 3 years experience coding various worms to exploit security flaws. It might also be his last worm, according to the interview:
“I’m done with Twitter. I’ve been getting too much attention lately.”
Michale Mooney hopes to become a security analyst one day – which I think would fit the bill perfectly.
The first varient of the StalkDaily worm took control of user’s accounts and posted tweets promotion the website Stalkdaily.com. Once the user visited the website, their account became infected and started promoting Stalkdaily.com
“I didn’t think it would spread as far or as fast as it did.”
The second variant, referred to as the “Mikeyy” worm by some, acted in the same way, except it posted tweets asking Twitter to fix the security hole and stating how “Mikeyy” was claiming responsibility for the worm.
He hasn’t been contacted by Twitter authorities yet.
