Micro blogging site Twitter is the latest target of cyber criminals who are increasingly finding easy ground on social networks.

Users of the micro-blogging service are being offered up links to booby-trapped sites from a compromised profile.

The password stealing software, which is apparently coming from Brazil, is disguised as a fake version of Adobe Flash which the victim is encouraged to install in order to view the videos.

The fake Adobe Flash download actually contains the malware payload, a downloader that attempts to inject ten banking Trojans into the infected machine.

Alexander Gostev, a senior virus analyst at Kaspersky Lab, told the BBC: “Unfortunately users are very trusting of messages left by friends on social networking sites so the likelihood of a user clicking on a link like this is very high. Only those using Microsoft Windows are vulnerable to infection from these malicious programs.”