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News, from Mashable! of another Twitter based malware scam, this time embedded in the trending topics functionality of the micro-blogging site. This issue is a further indicator of the need for extreme caution when dealing with URL shortening (at least from unknown users). More information including a short snippet of the original post, and linkage, appears after the jump. Remember, be very careful with shortened URLs from untrusted sources.

From the original Mashable! post by Stan Schroeder: “WARNING: Yet Another Twitter Scam Invades Trending Topics”

“Today is Alan Turing’s birthday, and there’s nothing unusual about “Alan Turing” being one of the trending topics on Twitter. However, if you aren’t careful, you might end up clicking the wrong link and picking up some malware along the way…” “As usual, Twitter scammers have been using trending topics, in particular the “Alan Turing” one, to link to a site that’s designed to trick the user into installing malware…” “Steer clear of “myworlds.mp” and “low.cc” links…” “Today, scammers have been particularly active on the “Alan Turing” trending topic, using it to link to a site on the myworlds.mp web domain. The links seem to be masked mostly through the popular bit.ly URL…”